Threads Certification Objectives

• Write code to define, instantiate, and start new threads using both java.lang.Thread and java.lang.Runnable.
  
  
• Recognize conditions that might prevent a thread from executing.
  
  
• Write code using synchronized, wait, notify, or notifyAll, to protect against concurrent access problems and to communicate between threads. Define the interaction between threads and between threads and object locks when executing synchronized, wait, notify, or notifyAll
  
  

1.4 Exam

The third 1.2 objective has been re-worded as:

• Write code using synchronized wait, notify and notifyAll to protect against concurrent access problems and to communicate between threads.
  
  
• Define the interaction among threads and object locks when executing synchronized wait, notify or notifyAll