A CountDownLatch is a concurrency construct that allows one or more threads to wait for a given set of operations to complete.
A CountDownLatch is initialized with a given count. This count is decremented by calls to the countDown() method. Threads waiting for this count to reach zero can call one of the await() methods. Calling await() blocks the thread until the count reaches zero.
Below is a simple example. After the Decrementer has called coundDown() 3 times on the CountDownLatch, the waiting Waiter is released from the await() call.
CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(3);
Waiter waiter = new Waiter(latch);
Decrementer decrementer = new Decrementer(latch);
new Thread(waiter) .start();
new Thread(decrementer).start();
Thread.sleep(4000);
public class Waiter implements Runnable{
CountDownLatch latch = null;
public Waiter(CountDownLatch latch) {
this.latch = latch;
}
public void run() {
try {
latch.await();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println("Waiter Released");
}
}
public class Decrementer implements Runnable {
CountDownLatch latch = null;
public Decrementer(CountDownLatch latch) {
this.latch = latch;
}
public void run() {
try {
Thread.sleep(1000);
this.latch.countDown();
Thread.sleep(1000);
this.latch.countDown();
Thread.sleep(1000);
this.latch.countDown();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}