Re: java code

From:
"Arved Sandstrom" <asandstrom@accesswave.ca>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:40:31 GMT
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"Lord Zoltar" <lord.zoltar@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Mar 25, 12:17 pm, Steve Wampler <swamp...@noao.edu> wrote:

Thomas Kellerer wrote:

Vishal, 25.03.2008 16:50:

i want the code for this program :

54444
54333
54322
54321


public class UselessCode
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println("54444");
System.out.println("54333");
System.out.println("54322");
System.out.println("54321");
}
}


I'm pretty sure that can't be right. There isn't enough
computation involved. *This* code however, has
enough computations to be right:

public class Foo {

public static void main(String args[]) {
int value;
while ((value = aNumber()) != 54444);
System.out.println(""+value);
while ((value = aNumber()) != 54333);
System.out.println(""+value);
while ((value = aNumber()) != 54322);
System.out.println(""+value);
while ((value = aNumber()) != 54321);
System.out.println(""+value);
}

public static int aNumber() {
if (null == rand) rand = new java.util.Random();
int result = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < 5; ++i) {
result = (10*result)+rand.nextInt(5)+1;
}
return result;
}

private static java.util.Random rand = null;
}

--
Steve Wampler -- swamp...@noao.edu
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It's not nearly enterprisey enough. You should implement an EJB to
generate the random numbers. When one of the required numbers is
found, it should be persisted to a database (and also loaded into a
cache, which should be periodically updated from the database). The
interface to this program should be a webservice.
:P

I figure there has to be a way to involve REST in this. Therefore I propose
that whenever you need integers in a program, you just access an integer
server (preferably part of a massive server farm someplace) a la:

http://numbers.com/integer/decimal/54444
http://numbers.com/integer/decimal/54443
http://numbers.com/integer/decimal/54442
http://numbers.com/integer/decimal/54441

AHS

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