threads and objects

[Sudheera Palihakkara]

Hello friends I'm pretty new to this forum.. This is my very first post wish to stay with you guys here..


I'm developing a code for an assignment given that find a solution for a modified Dining philosophers problem.. For that problem I had to create four classes. Philosopher , chopStick , samllBowl and bigBowl .. I implemented the class philosopher as Runnable.. And the problem is this.. As far as I know I have to write whatever I need to do with the thread within the run method.. I want to call methods of other classes which I created.. but I haven't created any objects of those class in the philosophers class.. all objects are created within the main class, main method... so how can I access the getStick() method defined within the chopStick class....? thank you in advance..

[Madhan Sundararajan Devaki]

You may do like the following.

ChopStick newChopStick = new ChopStick();
Philosopher oldPhilosopher = new Philosopher();

oldPhilosopher.addStick(newChopStick);

ChopStick oldChopStick = oldPhilosopher.getStick(); // You have got the old ChopStick ! :)

[Sudheera Palihakkara]

Madhan Sundararajan Devaki wrote:You may do like the following.

ChopStick newChopStick = new ChopStick();
Philosopher oldPhilosopher = new Philosopher();

oldPhilosopher.addStick(newChopStick);

ChopStick oldChopStick = oldPhilosopher.getStick(); // You have got the old ChopStick ! :)

Can you say where I have to type above code ?? thanks for the reply

[Madhan Sundararajan Devaki]

You know the answer, "within the main class, main method"