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Overview The expected behaviour for volatile fields is that they should behave in a multi-threaded application the same as they do in a single threaded application.  They are not forbidden to behave the same way, but they are not guaranteed to behave the same way. The solution in Java 5.0+ is to use AtomicXxxx classes […]