IllegalMonitorStateException on wait() call

In order to deal with the IllegalMonitorStateException, you must verify that all invocations of the wait, notify and notifyAll methods are taking place only when the calling thread owns the appropriate monitor. The most simple solution is to enclose these calls inside synchronized blocks. The synchronization object that shall be invoked in the synchronized statement is the one whose monitor must be acquired.

Here is the simple example for to understand the concept of monitor

public class SimpleMonitorState {

    public static void main(String args[]) throws InterruptedException {

        SimpleMonitorState t = new SimpleMonitorState();
        SimpleRunnable m = new SimpleRunnable(t);
        Thread t1 = new Thread(m);
        t1.start();
        t.call();

    }

    public void call() throws InterruptedException {
        synchronized (this) {
            wait();
            System.out.println("Single by Threads ");
        }
    }

}

class SimpleRunnable implements Runnable {

    SimpleMonitorState t;

    SimpleRunnable(SimpleMonitorState t) {
        this.t = t;
    }

    @Override
    public void run() {

        try {
            // Sleep
            Thread.sleep(10000);
            synchronized (this.t) {
                this.t.notify();
            }
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

I received a IllegalMonitorStateException while trying to wake up a thread in / from a different class / thread. In java 8 you can use the lock features of the new Concurrency API instead of synchronized functions.

I was already storing objects for asynchronous websocket transactions in a WeakHashMap. The solution in my case was to also store a lock object in a ConcurrentHashMap for synchronous replies. Note the condition.await (not .wait).

To handle the multi threading I used a Executors.newCachedThreadPool() to create a thread pool.

Those who are using Java 7.0 or below version can refer the code which I used here and it works.

public class WaitTest {

    private final Lock lock = new ReentrantLock();
    private final Condition condition = lock.newCondition();

    public void waitHere(long waitTime) {
        System.out.println("wait started...");
        lock.lock();
        try {
            condition.await(waitTime, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        lock.unlock();
        System.out.println("wait ends here...");
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //Your Code
        new WaitTest().waitHere(10);
        //Your Code
    }

}

For calling wait()/notify() on object, it needs to be inside synchronized block. So first you have to take lock on object then would be possible to call these function.

synchronized(obj)
{
   obj.wait()
}

For detailed explanation: https://dzone.com/articles/multithreading-java-and-interviewspart-2

wait(), notify() and notifyAll() methods should only be called in syncronized contexts.

For example, in a syncronized block:

syncronized (obj) {
        obj.wait();
}

Or, in a syncronized method:

syncronized static void myMethod() {
        wait();
}