Any diagram that shows a notify
invocation bringing a thread from WAITING to RUNNABLE is wrong (or is using an unclarified shortcut). Once a thread gets awoken from a notify
(or even from a spurious wakeup) it needs to relock the monitor of the object on which it was waiting. This is the BLOCKED
state.
Thread state for a thread blocked waiting for a monitor lock. A thread
in the blocked state is waiting for a monitor lock to enter a
synchronized block/method or reenter a synchronized block/method after
callingObject.wait
.
This is explained in the javadoc of Object#notify()
:
The awakened thread will not be able to proceed until the current
thread relinquishes the lock on this object.
and Object#wait()
The thread then waits until it can re-obtain ownership of the monitor
and resumes execution.