After reading Richard’s Blog, next question came to my mind, how to prevent the live locks or any other lock and if it happened how application should handle that.

I found this solution given by “Giuseppe Luciano” which shows a way to solve live lock when it happens in application. Here is his solution – A livelock solution. I believe, “Prevention is better than cure, so first developer should try how to avoid the deadlock situation while designing the solution. I read multiple blogs and googled also for finding the techniques to prevent deadlock, everyone was pointing to “order of lock acquisition” but there were 2 blogs who pointed out few more techniques to prevent deadlock and displayed some more situations where deadlock detection may be missed by the developer. These techniques are :

1. Lock Ordering
2. Lock Timeout
3. Deadlock Detection

You can read more about these techniques on Jenkov’s website. Another site explained different scenarios which can cause a deadlock, you can find it on Brian Goetz’s website. It also shows a solution for live lock problem which was discussed in Richard’s Blog.