How to Diagnose and Prevent Java Deadlocks (Alibaba & Other Big‑Company Interviews)
This article explains what a deadlock is, the four necessary conditions that cause it, demonstrates classic synchronized‑based and Lock‑based deadlock examples in Java, shows how to detect deadlocks with tools such as Arthas, jstack, jvisualvm and JMC, and provides practical strategies—including lock ordering, timeout locks, and two‑phase locking—to break each condition and avoid deadlocks in production code.
