如果您正在开发多线程应用程序，您将需要使用'volatile'关键字或'synchronized'以及您可能拥有的任何其他并发控制工具和技术。桌面应用就是这样一个例子。

If you are developing an application that would be deployed to application server (Tomcat, JBoss AS, Glassfish, etc) you don't have to handle concurrency control yourself as it already addressed by the application server. In fact, if I remembered correctly the Java EE standard prohibit any concurrency control in servlets and EJBs, since it is part of the 'infrastructure' layer which you supposed to be freed from handling it. You only do concurrency control in such app if you're implementing singleton objects. This even already addressed if you knit your components using frameworkd like Spring.

因此，在Java开发的大多数情况下，应用程序是一个web应用程序，并使用IoC框架，如Spring或EJB，你不需要使用'volatile'。

Volatile变量是轻量级同步。当所有线程之间的最新数据可见性是必需的，并且原子性可能会受到损害时，在这种情况下，Volatile变量必须是首选。对volatile变量的读取总是返回任何线程最近完成的写操作，因为它们既不缓存在寄存器中，也不缓存在其他处理器看不到的缓存中。Volatile是无锁的。当场景满足上面提到的条件时，我使用volatile。

如果您正在开发多线程应用程序，您将需要使用'volatile'关键字或'synchronized'以及您可能拥有的任何其他并发控制工具和技术。桌面应用就是这样一个例子。

If you are developing an application that would be deployed to application server (Tomcat, JBoss AS, Glassfish, etc) you don't have to handle concurrency control yourself as it already addressed by the application server. In fact, if I remembered correctly the Java EE standard prohibit any concurrency control in servlets and EJBs, since it is part of the 'infrastructure' layer which you supposed to be freed from handling it. You only do concurrency control in such app if you're implementing singleton objects. This even already addressed if you knit your components using frameworkd like Spring.

因此，在Java开发的大多数情况下，应用程序是一个web应用程序，并使用IoC框架，如Spring或EJB，你不需要使用'volatile'。

从oracle文档页，需要volatile变量来修复内存一致性问题:

使用易失性变量可以降低内存一致性错误的风险，因为对易失性变量的任何写入都会与该变量的后续读取建立happens-before关系。

这意味着对volatile变量的更改总是对其他线程可见。这也意味着当线程读取一个volatile变量时，它不仅看到了volatile的最新更改，还看到了导致更改的代码的副作用。

正如在Peter Parker的回答中解释的那样，在没有volatile修饰符的情况下，每个线程的堆栈都可能有自己的变量副本。通过将变量设置为volatile，可以修复内存一致性问题。

为了更好地理解，请查看jenkov教程页面。

看一下相关的SE问题，了解更多关于volatile的细节和使用volatile的用例:

Java中volatile和synchronized的区别

一个实际的用例:

你有很多线程，它们需要以特定的格式打印当前时间，例如:java.text.SimpleDateFormat("HH-mm-ss")。可以有一个类，它将当前时间转换为SimpleDateFormat，并每一秒更新一次变量。所有其他线程都可以使用这个易失性变量在日志文件中打印当前时间。

Volatile变量基本上用于主共享缓存线上的即时更新(刷新)，以便立即将更改反映到所有工作线程。

是的，我经常使用它——它对多线程代码非常有用。你指的那篇文章很好。不过有两件重要的事情要记住:

You should only use volatile if you completely understand what it does and how it differs to synchronized. In many situations volatile appears, on the surface, to be a simpler more performant alternative to synchronized, when often a better understanding of volatile would make clear that synchronized is the only option that would work. volatile doesn't actually work in a lot of older JVMs, although synchronized does. I remember seeing a document that referenced the various levels of support in different JVMs but unfortunately I can't find it now. Definitely look into it if you're using Java pre 1.5 or if you don't have control over the JVMs that your program will be running on.