What is AtomicBoolean? How to use it?

AtomicBoolean class is part of Package java.util.concurrent.atomic.

• Use primitive boolean or Boolean wrapper class when dealing with single-threaded contexts or when thread-safety is handled by synchronization mechanisms.
• Use AtomicBoolean class specifically when you need to perform thread-safe, atomic operations on a boolean value in a concurrent environment, especially flags that needs to be updated reliably by multiple threads.

Note: There are many such classes in package java.util.concurrent.atomic.