I was going through the example, in this link, I wonder how the class can access the private variable lock, in the code sample. Kindly explain me pros !!. The code is here at, yourLock = bower.lock.tryLock();.
public class Safelock {
static class Friend {
private final String name;
private final Lock lock = new ReentrantLock();
public Friend(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public String getName() {
return this.name;
}
public boolean impendingBow(Friend bower) {
Boolean myLock = false;
Boolean yourLock = false;
try {
myLock = lock.tryLock();
yourLock = bower.lock.tryLock();
} finally {
if (! (myLock && yourLock)) {
if (myLock) {
lock.unlock();
}
if (yourLock) {
bower.lock.unlock();
}
}
}
return myLock && yourLock;
}