What is the Java CountDownLatch class used for?

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What is the Java CountDownLatch class used for?

The Java CountDownLatch class is used for synchronization purposes in multithreaded applications. It allows one or more threads to wait until a set of operations being performed in other threads completes. The CountDownLatch is initialized with a count, and each thread that needs to wait for the operations to complete calls the await() method. Once the count reaches zero, the waiting threads are released and can continue their execution.