8.2 Chapter Goals

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8.2 Chapter Goals

After completing this chapter, you should know the following:

• The difference between cooperative synchronization and competitive synchronization

• What can happen if threads are not coordinated and how to use the synchronization with wait and notify methods to achieve cooperative synchronization

• Why it is invalid to use sleep times to achieve cooperative synchronization

• How to protect against race conditions when using the animator to move an object in a thread

• What is a notification object and how it can be implemented

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