Producer-Consumer-Problem-Java

I recently tackled the classic Producer-Consumer problem using Java and multithreading. This problem is a fundamental example in concurrent programming, showcasing how producers and consumers can work together while sharing a common buffer.

🧵 What is the Producer-Consumer Problem? In the Producer-Consumer problem, we have two types of threads:

Producers: Generate data and add it to a shared buffer. Consumers: Take data from the shared buffer and process it. The challenge is to ensure that producers don't overflow the buffer and consumers don't try to consume from an empty buffer.

🔧 My Solution I implemented this problem using three different approaches in Java:

Using Object as a Lock: Leveraging intrinsic locks with synchronized blocks.

Runnable Interface: Implementing the Runnable interface for producer and consumer classes.

Thread Class: Extending the Thread class for producer and consumer classes.

💡 Key Concepts Thread Safety: Ensuring that shared resources are accessed by one thread at a time.

Synchronization: Using intrinsic locks and condition variables to manage thread execution.

Concurrency Handling: Addressing potential issues like race conditions and deadlocks.