Simple Java name based locks?

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All those answers I see are way too complicated. Why not simply use:

public void executeInNamedLock(String lockName, Runnable runnable) {
  synchronized(lockName.intern()) {
    runnable.run();
  }
}

The key point is the method intern: it ensures that the String returned is a global unique object, and so it can be used as a vm-instance-wide mutex. All interned Strings are held in a global pool, so that’s your static cache you were talking about in your original question. Don’t worry about memleaks; those strings will be gc’ed if no other thread references it. Note however, that up to and including Java6 this pool is kept in PermGen space instead of the heap, so you might have to increase it.

There’s a problem though if some other code in your vm locks on the same string for completely different reasons, but a) this is very unlikely, and b) you can get around it by introducing namespaces, e.g. executeInNamedLock(this.getClass().getName() + "_" + myLockName);

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