[concurrency-interest] Simple ScheduledFuture problem

[Dhanji R. Prasanna]

Thanks Brian and guys  for the wise words. =)

On 9/5/06, Brian Goetz <brian at quiotix.com> wrote:
> > yes, but presumably a more elegant solution is for the other "setting
> > methods" to invoke the single setter, and treat the volatile field as
> > a javabeans property.
>
> No, that wouldn't work.  Otherwise, two threads racing to increment
> could result in a lost update.  Volatile is tricky!
>