hashtable Synchronization

Question

is whole Hashtable object is syncronized? I Know,Get and Put methods are synchronized. Is it mean, each entries in the Hashtable are synchronized?

If i have a hash object hsObj, and have 3 key-value pairs "a->sun" "b->tue" and "c->wed" then while getting one entry values we can put other entry values but we cant put or get at the same entry location.

Is it correct?

Answer 1

Whole Hashtable object is syncronized. If you want more concurrent Map you might look into ConcurrentHashMap. Here is a good resource : http://www.javamex.com/tutorials/synchronization_concurrency_8_hashmap.shtml.