Directly from this web site, I came across the following description about creating object thread safety.
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Its describing the following situation:
Thread1:
//we add a reference to this thread
object.add(thread1Id,this);
//we start to initialize this thread, but suppose before reaching the next line we switch threads
this.initialize();
Thread2:
//we are able to get th1, but its not initialized properly so its in an invalid state
//and hence th1 is not valid
Object th1 = object.get(thread1Id);