LAB # 10
PRE LAB
In this lab we are going to work with Threads. The Lab consists of generating a producer thread
and one or more consumer threads. The code is again an extension of your previous labs code
thus expanding on the GUI. Your producer thread is a thread that produces a student object
with a particular id (including the other attributes as in previous labs). The object is stored in a
shared memory location and then it can be consumed by a School thread.
The lab will be repeated for two different situations. In one situation the threads are non
synchronized and in the second situation the threads are synchronized. In both case the data
should be displayed on a JText Area attached to a JInternalFrame.
In the Pre-Lab do the following:
1. Append the JMenuBar in your GUI to include a new JMenu titled “Student/School
Threads”. Attach two JMenuItems : 1. Non-Synchronized 2. Synchronized
2. Answer the following question:
What is the meaning of synchronization?
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