CS696: Assignment 3

	CS 696 Emerging Technologies: Java Distributed Computing Spring Semester, 1999 Assignment 3
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Assignment 3 - Widget Trading
Due Tuesday, April 27
A widget store starts with a 100 widgets and no dollars. The widget store sells a widget using the formula:

price in dollars = round[101/(number of widgets currently owned by the store + 1)]

When selling N widgets in a single transaction, each widget is the same price as the first widget of the transaction. If the store has 100 widgets, buying 2 widgets at once will cost a total of $2. When buying widgets the store will pay round[101/(number of widgets currently owned by the store + 3)] dollars per widget. In a multi-widget deal the store uses the price of the first widget as the price for each widget. When buying widgets the store can not pay money more than the store has. A store object has a currentSellPrice method, a currentBuyPrice method, a buy method and a sell method. You can add more methods as needed.

A customer starts with 25 dollars and no widgets. A customer will contact the widget store to purchase.

Write a widget store Jini service. The service will have one store. The store is to be activatable. The store maintains its state (number of widgets and number of dollars) between invocations of the server process. The store service should also always use the same service ID each time it registers with any Jini lookup service. Test your widget store by having some customers contact the store (in client programs), buy some widgets and then sell 1/2 of the widgets back to the store. The remote stubs for the store service should be dynamically downloaded to the client customer program.
Improve the store buy allowing customers to register as remote listeners of the price of a widget. The customer is to be informed when the price of a widget changes. (You could have a customer register in knowing when the price of a widget goes above a given price. This is a bit harder, and is optional). Write a customer object that buys some widgets and registers itself to be informed of changes in widget prices. When the widget buy-back price is 10 dollars more than the price the paid for a widget, a customer sells the widgets back to the store. Make sure that your remote listeners are leased.
Improve your store by using the transaction manager to conduct the widget transaction between the store and customers.

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