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This article explains the classic producer‑consumer problem in Java, demonstrates initial implementations using wait/notify with a single producer and consumer, analyzes issues that arise with multiple threads, and presents step‑by‑step code refinements—including while‑loops and notifyAll—to achieve correct multithreaded synchronization.
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