BAEL-613 - Added workers which wait for all other workers to start

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/concurrent/countdownlatch/WaitingWorker.java

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+package com.baeldung.concurrent.countdownlatch;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
+
+public class WaitingWorker implements Runnable {
+
+    private final List<String> outputScraper;
+    private final CountDownLatch readyThreadCounter;
+    private final CountDownLatch callingThreadBlocker;
+    private final CountDownLatch completedThreadCounter;
+
+    public WaitingWorker(final List<String> outputScraper,
+                         final CountDownLatch readyThreadCounter,
+                         final CountDownLatch callingThreadBlocker,
+                         CountDownLatch completedThreadCounter) {
+
+        this.outputScraper = outputScraper;
+        this.readyThreadCounter = readyThreadCounter;
+        this.callingThreadBlocker = callingThreadBlocker;
+        this.completedThreadCounter = completedThreadCounter;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void run() {
+        // Mark this thread as read / started
+        readyThreadCounter.countDown();
+        try {
+            callingThreadBlocker.await();
+            outputScraper.add("Counted down");
+        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        } finally {
+            completedThreadCounter.countDown();
+        }
+    }
+}