One of the most significant improvements offered by locks is the ReadWriteLock interface and the ReentrantReadWriteLock class, the unique class that implements that interface. This class has two locks: one for read operations and one for write operations. There can be more than one thread using read operations simultaneously, but only one thread can use write operations. If a thread is doing a write operation, other threads can't write or read.
In this recipe, you will learn how to use a ReadWriteLock interface by implementing a program that uses it to control access to an object that stores the prices of two products.
