Concurrent access to static methods

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user1226058 picture user1226058 · Jan 2, 2013 · Viewed 20.5k times · Source

I have a static method with the following signature:

public static List<ResultObjects> processRequest(RequestObject req){
  // process the request object and return the results.
}

What happens when there are multiple calls made to the above method concurrently? Will the requests be handled concurrently or one after the other?

Answer

Andremoniy picture Andremoniy · Jan 2, 2013

Answering exactly your question:

  1. Method will be executed concurrently (multiple times in the same time if you have several threads).
  2. Requests will be handled concurrently.

You need to add the synchronized modifier if you are working with objects that require concurrent access.

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