Specifications

Sun Services

Java™ Programming Language

Module 13, slide 2 of 37

Objectives

• Define a thread

• Create separate threads in a Java technology program,

controlling the code and data that are used by that

thread

• Control the execution of a thread and write platform-

independent code with threads

• Describe the difficulties that might arise when multiple

threads share data

• Use wait and notify to communicate between threads

• Use synchronized to protect data from corruption