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Annotation Type CopyOnWrite

@Retention(value=SOURCE)
@Documented
@Target(value=FIELD)
public @interface CopyOnWrite

Represents fields that are protected for concurrency by the copy-on-write semantics.

Fields marked by this annotation always holds on to an immutable collection. A change to the collection must be done by first creating a new collection object, making changes, then replacing the reference atomically.

This allows code to access the field without synchronization, and greatly reduces the risk of dead-lock bugs.

The field marked with this annotation usually needs to be marked as volatile.

Author:

Kohsuke Kawaguchi