How should the notify wait mechanism of Java be called?

Question

What is an appropriate name? I read notify/wait should barely used for anything else, but building condition queues. Another possible name might be thread coordination. In the Java concurrency tutorial its named Guarded Blocks. Actually I find no one of these suitable. Is there a better keyword to describe this mechanism?

Answer 1

That would be a Monitor

Answer 2

Thread coordination seems reasonable. The wait/notify methods coordinate via the object's monitor. Monitor is maybe the concept you are looking for.