Drinking Philosopher Problem

Authors:

CJ Miller and Jesse Shellabarger

How to Use

• Fast Start

  • Uses the program arguments to setup the network.

  main.FastStart <Local Port> <Left Host> <Right Host> <Wait Time Before Connecting> <Starvation Time>

• Manual Start

  • Follow the Prompts in the command line Push enter again after putting in port to start the client connection processes

REPL Commands

• start : Begins the algorithm and propagates that to the other Philosophers
• gui : Opens a JFrame that allows manual switching of the local Philosopher
• hungry : Forces the local Philosopher into the hungry state
• thinking : Forces the local Philosopher into the thinking state
• thirsty : Forces the client to be thirsty

Incentive

• GUI (via the gui command)
• Single Connection Between Nodes
• Scales to any number of Philosophers