New improvement for Java syntax

Question

Hi developers
I develop in java each day and the new project that I am envolved uses too much multithreading. So i thought that a litle improvement could be made on java syntax.
When two threads uses the same class attribute we must synchronize the access to this.
class myClass {
private int myAtribute = 0;
thread1: We must access the attribute synchronized....
shynchronized (this) {
myAttribute = 1;
thread2: The same....
synchronized (this) {
myAttribute = 3;
thread2: But if i don't care.... :-(
myAttribute = 4;
Ok, that is the problem.
I thought to solve this the java language must give us the chance to declare attributes in the way...
private synchronize int myAttribute = 0;
to be only accesed by sinchronized methods or by synchronized blocks in order to force interpreter to check if any method access this attribute without being synchronized in compiling time.

Answer 1

In your example, wouldn't the volatile keyword normally suffice?
private volatile int myAttribute = 0;Graeme