Re: java.util.Properties -- make it thread-safe?

[Jeff Sturm]

On 15 Feb 2002, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> When javadoc puts a synchronized in the javadoc you can be sure that the
> thread will need to acquire the lock for that object.

Not so.  For instance, Java allows overriding a synchronized method with a
non-sychronized one.  Relying on the information from javadoc could be
misleading.

Also, the inverse doesn't apply:  a method not identified as synchronized
in javadoc may synchronize "this" anyway.

For these reasons, I believe "synchornized" is part of a method's
implementation but not its interface, and I am glad javadoc ignores it.

Jeff