/**
 * Class readerwriter: defines a main method that starts 4 readers and 
 * 4 writers and waits until these 8 threads have terminated.
 * @author Kg2s
 */
public class readerwriter { // initialize objects and variables
    /**Starts 4 readers and writers which share the scheduler class
     */
    public static void main(String args[]){
        scheduler s = new scheduler();
        timer t = new timer();
        int numThreads=4;
 
        writerx[] w = new writerx[numThreads];
        readerx[] r = new readerx[numThreads];
        //Initialize writers
        for(int i=0;i<numThreads;i++)
            w[i]= new writerx(i,t,s);
 
        //Initialize readers
        for(int i=0;i<numThreads;i++)
            r[i]= new readerx(i,t,s);
 
        System.out.println("Starting the threads....\n");
        //start writers
        for(int i=0;i<numThreads;i++)
            w[i].start();
        //start readers
        for(int i=0;i<numThreads;i++)
            r[i].start();    
    }
}