Fact #0. If you write 'synchronized' in Java code you are doing it wrong. Seriously. 'synchronized' indicates that the programmer is re-inventing and/or re-impl

Fact #0. If you write 'synchronized' in Java code you are doing it wrong. Seriously. 'synchronized' indicates that the programmer is re-inventing and/or re-implementing a solved problem. In Java parallelism and concurrency for most real-wold problems are handled by frameworks or covered by well-known patterns.