Tom Hawtin writes about
a deadlock he found in jedit 4.2. As he says: There was, however, a use of invokeAndWait. Sure enough the EDT was waiting on monitor locked by the thread calling invokeAndWait.
What's most interesting is a class he provides to help one automatically find those situations. It relies on a Mustang ability provided through the JMX support to query all held locks. The code looks to see if the Event Dispatch Thread is called with a parent stack frame in invokeAndWait, and then checks the locks. Really cool.
David Herron:
David Herron is a writer and software engineer focusing on the wise use of technology. He is especially interested in clean energy technologies like solar power, wind power, and electric cars. David worked for nearly 30 years in Silicon Valley on software ranging from electronic mail systems, to video streaming, to the Java programming language, and has published several books on Node.js programming and electric vehicles.
