Java Threading Example
//
// Simple thread demo in Java. The main declares a certain amount of
// "resources" (just an integer number) then starts two threads which
// "work through" the resources (mostly by printing that they did).
// The Java thread interface is much cleaner than the standard pthreads
// interface used in C.
//
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class thrd
{
static private int depot; // Shared data.
// This is the class
static class ThrdInfo extends Thread {
String topr; // What to print.
int low, high; // Random range.
Random rand = new Random(); // Random number generator.
ThrdInfo(String _topr, int _low, int _high) {
topr = _topr;
low = _low;
high = _high;
}
// Get the resource. (Note the sychnronized keyword.)
public synchronized int get_resource(int amt)
{
if(depot < amt) amt = depot;
depot -= amt;
return amt;
}
// This is the function run in the thread.
public void run()
{
while(true) {
// Choose a random number in range.
int amt = rand.nextInt(high - low + 1) + low;
// Remove that amount from the resource depot.
amt = get_resource(amt);
// When the resource is exhausted, we're done.
if(amt == 0) return;
// Do that much "work."
while(amt-- > 0) {
System.out.print("["+topr+"]");
System.out.flush();
}
System.out.println();
System.out.flush();
}
}
}
public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException,
InterruptedException
{
// Create the two thread objects.
ThrdInfo th1 = new ThrdInfo("Z", 14, 18);
ThrdInfo th2 = new ThrdInfo("EE", 8, 12);
// Fill the resource depot and start the the threads running.
depot = 3000;
th1.start();
th2.start();
// Wait for each of them to be done.
th1.join();
System.out.println("First Done");
System.out.flush();
th2.join();
System.out.println("Second Done");
System.out.flush();
}
}