I'm not sure if I'm interpreting the javadoc right. When using a
ReentrantLock after calling the
lock method and successfully gaining a lock, can you just access any object without any synchronized blocks and the happend-before relationship is magically enforced?
I don't see any connection between the
ReentrantLock and the objects I'm working on, that's why it is hard to believe I can work on them safely. But this is the case, or am I reading the javadoc wrong?