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Subject: (What I am doing) Re: Assorted bits and proverbial bobs 
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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:18:14 +0100
From: Frank Teusink <Frank.Teusink@cwi.nl>
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Hi,

Ok. So you want to know what people are doing. Well, I am building a
Bridge Client/Server system in Java. All very premature, though there
should be a 0.1alpha version to show in a couple of weeks. At least
for playing a straight rubber.

Right now, I am strugling a bit with threads. I have a packet handler
around a Socket. One of its methods is waitFor(), which allows an object
to wait for a certain message on that object (the packet handler does
some kind of multiplexing). Anyway, I have some troubles waking up
the waiting object when his packet arrives (I use wait() and notify()).
Too soon to bug you with the details, though.

One question. Does anyone have experience with using Thread objects as
keys in a Hashtable? Does it work/not work? I don't know why it shouldn't
work, but it not working could be a reason for me having this problem.

Cheers,

Frank

P.S. I also get the impression Linux java is faster than SUN java. My
     16MB 486-80 seems to outperform SUN Sparcstation 4's, especially
     on compiling.
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Frank Teusink          CWI
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