NikolaB解释得很好，但是举例有助于理解，所以这里有一个简单的例子…

 import java.util.concurrent.*;


  public class CountDownLatchExample {

  public static class ProcessThread implements Runnable {

    CountDownLatch latch;
    long workDuration;
    String name;

    public ProcessThread(String name, CountDownLatch latch, long duration){
        this.name= name;
        this.latch = latch;
        this.workDuration = duration;
    }


    public void run() {
        try {
            System.out.println(name +" Processing Something for "+ workDuration/1000 + " Seconds");
            Thread.sleep(workDuration);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        System.out.println(name+ "completed its works");
        //when task finished.. count down the latch count...

        // basically this is same as calling lock object notify(), and object here is latch
        latch.countDown();
    }
}


public static void main(String[] args) {
    // Parent thread creating a latch object
    CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(3);

    new Thread(new ProcessThread("Worker1",latch, 2000)).start(); // time in millis.. 2 secs
    new Thread(new ProcessThread("Worker2",latch, 6000)).start();//6 secs
    new Thread(new ProcessThread("Worker3",latch, 4000)).start();//4 secs


    System.out.println("waiting for Children processes to complete....");
    try {
        //current thread will get notified if all chidren's are done 
        // and thread will resume from wait() mode.
        latch.await();
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    System.out.println("All Process Completed....");

    System.out.println("Parent Thread Resuming work....");



     }
  }

是的，你理解对了。 CountDownLatch的工作原理是闩锁，主线程将等待门被打开。一个线程等待n个线程，这是在创建CountDownLatch时指定的。

任何调用CountDownLatch.await()的线程(通常是应用程序的主线程)都将等待，直到count达到零或被另一个线程中断。所有其他线程都需要在完成或准备就绪后调用CountDownLatch.countDown()进行倒计时。

只要count达到0，等待线程就会继续。CountDownLatch的一个缺点/优点是它不可重用:一旦count达到0，就不能再使用CountDownLatch了。

编辑:

当一个线程(如主线程)需要等待一个或多个线程完成后才能继续处理时，使用CountDownLatch。

在Java中使用CountDownLatch的一个经典示例是一个服务器端核心Java应用程序，该应用程序使用服务体系结构，其中多个服务由多个线程提供，在所有服务成功启动之前应用程序不能开始处理。

注: OP的问题有一个非常简单的例子，所以我没有包括一个。

package practice;

import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;

public class CountDownLatchExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
        CountDownLatch c= new CountDownLatch(3);  // need to decrements the count (3) to zero by calling countDown() method so that main thread will wake up after calling await() method 
        Task t = new Task(c);
        Task t1 = new Task(c);
        Task t2 = new Task(c);
        t.start();
        t1.start();
        t2.start();
        c.await(); // when count becomes zero main thread will wake up 
        System.out.println("This will print after count down latch count become zero");
    }
}

class Task extends Thread{
    CountDownLatch c;

    public Task(CountDownLatch c) {
        this.c = c;
    }

    @Override
    public void run() {
        try {
            System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName());
            Thread.sleep(1000);
            c.countDown();   // each thread decrement the count by one 
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

如果你在调用latch.countDown()后添加一些调试，这可能会帮助你更好地理解它的行为。

latch.countDown();
System.out.println("DONE "+this.latch); // Add this debug

输出将显示Count正在递减。这个“计数”实际上是你启动的可运行任务(处理器对象)的数量，其中countDown()没有被调用，因此在主线程调用latch.await()时被阻塞。

DONE java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch@70e69696[Count = 2]
DONE java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch@70e69696[Count = 1]
DONE java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch@70e69696[Count = 0]

CoundDownLatch使您能够让一个线程等待所有其他线程执行完毕。

伪代码可以是:

// Main thread starts
// Create CountDownLatch for N threads
// Create and start N threads
// Main thread waits on latch
// N threads completes there tasks are returns
// Main thread resume execution

在此链接中解释了countDownLatch的最佳实时示例