Well, I was going through the Java concurrency in practice, by Brian Goetz, and found difficult to understand in different between CountDownLatch and Cyclic Barriers.
It's look like both are same except that cyclic barriers can be reused ?
The books says that:
Latches are waiting for events, barriers are waiting for other threads
This statement seems to be very confusing. Not sure if this is a misquote by the authors or it has a real meaning. Functionally they appear to be same and it isn't difficult to rewrite a better version of CountDownLatch which is re-usable with a method like reset().
Not sure of the practical life application of cyclic barriers over count down latches ?
Though looks similar to one of the questions already asked on this blog ( about latches and barriers ), but this questions strives to understand some other subtleties.
