Deadlocks and Threads in Java

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A deadlock is a situation where in two or more competing actions are each waiting for the other to finish, and thus neither ever does.  In computer science, Coffman deadlock refers to a specific condition when two or more processes are each waiting for the other to release a resource, or more than two processes are waiting for resources in a circular chain. Deadlocks are particularly troubling because there is no general solution to avoid (soft) deadlocks.
Consider a following bridge crossing example:  more...