According to Oracle Javadoc:
IllegalMonitorStateException is thrown when a thread has attempted to wait on an object’s monitor or to notify other threads waiting
on an object’s monitor without owning the specified monitor.
In other words, this exception can be thrown only in case of bad design because Object.wait(...), Object.notify() and
Object.notifyAll() methods should never be called on an object whose monitor is not held.
Noncompliant Code Example
public void doSomething(){
...
try {
...
anObject.notify();
...
} catch(IllegalMonitorStateException e) {
...
}
}
Compliant Solution
public void doSomething(){
...
synchronized(anObject) {
...
anObject.notify();
...
}
}
