[deery5000]

Hi guys

Im working on a muli thread server. i have been trying to modify the knovk knock server.

The goal of my project is to
1. collect a player name from 5 clients
2. send the team of 5 players back to each client.

I dont fully understand the new thread to handle each connection. I accept the connection and take a player name fine and i put the thread in a waiting state. i end up with 4 threads in a waiting state a running thread. I use notifyall to awaken my threads but only one continues to run.

I am aware that the 4 other threads are 4 different objects waiting to be notified by there own object but how do i do that?

Can anyone help me?

Team Class

import java.io.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;

public  class Team {

  final int TEAM_SIZE = 2;
  public static int num_members = 0;
  public static String player[] = new String[2];

  public static String teamMembers;

synchronized String add(String name) {

    /*add player name to array*/
    player[num_members] = name;

    /*increment counter each time player is added team*/
    num_members = num_members +1;

    if (num_members < TEAM_SIZE) 

       try {
           /*make thread wait*/
            wait();
        }
       catch(Exception e) {}

    else 

        try {  
                /*awaken threads*/
              notifyAll();
              /*add all names to one string*/
              teamMembers = player[0] + " " + player[1];
            }
            catch(Exception e) {}

            /*return team*/
        return teamMembers;

    }

} // end add

Protocol Class

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

public class KnockKnockProtocol {
    private static final int WAITING = 0;
    private static final int SENTRESPONSE= 1;

    private int state = WAITING;
    

    public String processInput(String theInput) {
        String theOutput = null;

        if (state == WAITING) {
            
            theOutput = "Enter Players name :  ";
            state = SENTRESPONSE;
            
        } else if (state == SENTRESPONSE) {
            
            /*Adding player name to team*/
            Team player = new Team();
            theOutput = player.add(theInput);
           
            if (Team.num_members == 2){
           
                /*Get all team members*/
                theOutput = Team.teamMembers;
            }
           
            theOutput = "Player added to team";
            state = WAITING;
          
            }
       
        return theOutput;
    }
}

Im open to any ideas.

Kevin