2.2 Chapter Goals

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2.2 Chapter Goals

After completing this chapter, you should be able to:

• Program simple Java programs that contain threads.

• Explain a simple memory management and execution model, similar to the one used in the Java virtual machine (JVM).

• Understand how programs use contexts to control multiple threads.

• Understand what nondeterminism is and why it occurs in concurrent programs.

• Identify race conditions in programs and be able to eliminate them.

• Understand how the synchronized statement and the wait and notify method calls work in Java, and know some of the rules for their use.

• Understand what deadlock is, how it can occur, and how to prevent it.

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