In general these are mostly the same other than being explicit about the object's monitor that's being used vs the implicit this object. One downside of synchronized methods that I think is sometimes overlooked is that in using the "this" reference to synchronize on you are leaving open the possibility of external objects locking on the same object. That can be a very subtle bug if you run into it. Synchronizing on an internal explicit Object or other existing field can avoid this issue, completely encapsulating the synchronization.

As already said here synchronized block can use user-defined variable as lock object, when synchronized function uses only "this". And of course you can manipulate with areas of your function which should be synchronized. But everyone says that no difference between synchronized function and block which covers whole function using "this" as lock object. That is not true, difference is in byte code which will be generated in both situations. In case of synchronized block usage should be allocated local variable which holds reference to "this". And as result we will have a little bit larger size for function (not relevant if you have only few number of functions).

你可以在这里找到更详细的解释: http://www.artima.com/insidejvm/ed2/threadsynchP.html

使用同步块，您可以有多个同步器，因此多个同时但不冲突的事情可以同时进行。

同步的方法

优点:

您的IDE可以指示同步方法。 语法更加紧凑。 强制将同步块分割为单独的方法。

缺点:

与此同步，因此外部人员也可以与之同步。 将代码移到同步块之外更加困难。

同步块

优点:

允许为锁使用私有变量，从而将锁强制留在类内部。 同步块可以通过搜索变量的引用来找到。

缺点:

语法更复杂，因此使代码更难阅读。

就我个人而言，我更喜欢使用同步方法，类只关注需要同步的东西。这样的类应该尽可能小，所以应该很容易检查同步。其他人不需要关心同步。

大多数情况下，我使用它来同步对列表或映射的访问，但我不想阻止对对象的所有方法的访问。

在下面的代码中，修改列表的线程不会阻塞等待正在修改映射的线程。如果方法在对象上是同步的，那么每个方法都必须等待，即使它们所做的修改不会冲突。

private List<Foo> myList = new ArrayList<Foo>();
private Map<String,Bar) myMap = new HashMap<String,Bar>();

public void put( String s, Bar b ) {
  synchronized( myMap ) {
    myMap.put( s,b );
    // then some thing that may take a while like a database access or RPC or notifying listeners
  }
}

public void hasKey( String s, ) {
  synchronized( myMap ) {
    myMap.hasKey( s );
  }
}

public void add( Foo f ) {
  synchronized( myList ) {
    myList.add( f );
// then some thing that may take a while like a database access or RPC or notifying listeners
  }
}

public Thing getMedianFoo() {
  Foo med = null;
  synchronized( myList ) {
    Collections.sort(myList);
    med = myList.get(myList.size()/2); 
  }
  return med;
}

关于使用同步块的重要提示:小心你使用的锁对象!

上面user2277816的代码片段说明了这一点，将字符串字面值的引用用作锁定对象。 意识到字符串字面值在Java中是自动互缩的，您应该开始看到问题所在:在字面值“锁”上同步的每段代码都共享同一个锁!这很容易导致完全不相关的代码段发生死锁。

您需要注意的不仅仅是String对象。装箱的原语也是一种危险，因为autoboxing和valueOf方法可以重用相同的对象，这取决于值。

有关更多信息，请参阅: https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/java/LCK01-J.+Do+not+synchronize+on+objects+that+may+be+reused