java.util.Collections.synchronizedList() Method

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Description

The synchronizedList(List<T>) method is used to return a synchronized (thread-safe) list backed by the specified list.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.util.Collections.synchronizedList() method.

public static <T> List<T> synchronizedList(List<T> list)

Parameters

list − The list to be "wrapped" in a synchronized list.

Return Value

• The method call returns a synchronized view of the specified list.

Exception

NA

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.util.Collections.synchronizedList()

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.util.*;

public class CollectionsDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {

      // create vector object 
      List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();

      // populate the list
      list.add("1");
      list.add("2");
      list.add("3");
      list.add("4");
      list.add("5");

      // create a synchronized list
      List<String> synlist = Collections.synchronizedList(list);

      System.out.println("Sunchronized list is :"+synlist);
   }
}

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result.

Sunchronized list is :[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]