Condition vs wait notify mechanism

Question

What is the advantage of using Condition interface/implementations over the conventional wait notify mechanism? Here I quote the comments written by Doug Lea:

Answer 1

The biggest problem is that wait/notify is error prone for new developers. The main problem is not knowing how to handle them correctly can result is obscure bug.

• if you call notify() before wait() it is lost.
• it can be sometimes unclear if notify() and wait() are called on the same object.
• There is nothing in wait/notify which requires a state change, yet this is required in most cases.
• wait() can return spuriously

Condition wraps up this functionality into a dedicated component, however it behaves much the same.

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