I am doing a project on a print spooler. I am using multithreading to support multiple clients.
The problem is that I need another thread on the server side to take care of the printing by extracting jobs from a priority queue. If the queue is empty the thread must be idle and when a job comes it must service it.
How do i go about this? Where do i start the print thread? And from where do i let the thread know that a job has entered into a previously empty thread?
rogue005 0 Newbie Poster
JamesCherrill 4,733 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
Use a LinkedBlockingQueue for the server - you'll find examples on the web.
rogue005 0 Newbie Poster
Use a LinkedBlockingQueue for the server - you'll find examples on the web.
I am using a priority blocking queue. Is that alright? I need to use a priority queue!
JamesCherrill 4,733 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
Yes, absolutely. LinkedBlockingQueue is FIFO, I missed the bit where you said "priority", sorry.
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