Difference between synchronized and volatile

The main differences between synchronized and volatile are:

• a primitive variable may be declared volatile whereas synchronized cannot be applied on the primitive types, but on some object or method or class.
• Lock - Volatile deals with visibility, so if one thread modifies some variable, it will be known to other thread, so unlike a synchronized block we will never hold on to any lock; This is the big difference as synchronized offers mutual exclusion while volatile don't.
• Attempting to synchronize on a null object will throw a NullPointerException, while  this is fine with volatile.
• As synchronized offers mutual exclusion, it offers atomicity as well. But volatile doesn't mean atomic. (click on the link to see why)

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