Press enter to continue...

Question

hi all,
in my server /client model the clients log on and register ina vector class..since im working on distributed computing, time is important. so in my simulation, i wait for all the clients to log on and after i press enter, the server sends out the jobs.. this is how im doing..
static String name
System.out.println("press enter to continue");
try
name = br.readLine();
     }     catch(IOException e)
               System.out.println(e);
this does work fine. but depending upon number of clients, i have press enter key so many times. how to change this, so that by pressing just once, it is updated in all the clients.? or is there a better way to do this? using may be datastreaminput(i had read it but have forgotten the website).
thank you
ls

Answer 1

Don't know if this is actual anymore but still (I'm in a situation when I can access the net only on weekends if I'm lucky)...
You still ask the user to "press enter to continue" when ever you add a client since the codes for those two things are in the same place. You should move the code that asks for "enter" outside that method completely, that is:/* some code... */
public void addClient(frequencies obj) {
clientno = track ;
track++;
Clients.addElement(obj);
System.out.println("client added");
/* getting a handle to the callback object */
f[clientno] = (frequencies)Clients.elementAt(clientno);
client++;
sendout(client -1);
}//end of addclient
/* some more code... */
// call addClient in a loop here
System.out.println("press enter to continue");
try {
name = br.readLine();
} catch(IOException e) {
System.out.println(e);
/* and even more code... */