Threadsafe vs Synchronized

Question

I\'m new to java. I\'m little bit confused between Threadsafe and synchronized. Thread safe means that a method or class instance can be used by multiple threads at the same tim

Answer 1

After patiently reading through a lot of answers and not being too technical at the same time, I could say something definite but close to what Nayak had already replied to fastcodejava above, which comes later on in my answer but look

synchronization is not even close to brute-forcing thread-safety; it's just making a piece of code (or method) safe and incorruptible for a single authorized thread by preventing it from being used by any other threads.

Thread safety is about how all threads accessing a certain element behave and get their desired results in the same way if they would have been sequential (or even not so), without any form of undesired corruption (sorry for the pleonasm) as in an ideal world.

One of the ways of achieving proximity to thread-safety would be using classes in java.util.concurrent.atomic.

Sad, that they don't have final methods though!