Hello everyone,

Currently, I have one observable and many observers. What i need is different observables, and depending on the observable, different observers. How do I achieve this? ( For understanding, assume I have different apples - say apple1 apple2... I have observer_1 observing apple1, observer_2 observing apple2, observer_3 observing apple 2 and so on..). I tried creating different objects of the Observable class, but since observers are observing the same class of observable, I don't know how to access a particular instance of the Observable.

I have included the following servlet code that contains Observer and Observable classes:

public class CustomerServlet extends HttpServlet {

public String getNextMessage() {
    // Create a message sink to wait for a new message from the
    // message source.
    return new MessageSink().getNextMessage(source);
}

@Override
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
    ObjectOutputStream dout = new ObjectOutputStream(response.getOutputStream());
    String recMSG = getNextMessage();
    dout.writeObject(recMSG);
    dout.flush();
}

public void broadcastMessage(String message) {
    // Send the message to all the HTTP-connected clients by giving the
    // message to the message source
    source.sendMessage(message);
}

@Override
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
    try {
        ObjectInputStream din= new ObjectInputStream(request.getInputStream());
        String message = (String)din.readObject();
        ObjectOutputStream dout = new ObjectOutputStream(response.getOutputStream());
        dout.writeObject("1");
        dout.flush();
        if (message != null) {
            broadcastMessage(message);
        }
        // Set the status code to indicate there will be no response
        response.setStatus(response.SC_NO_CONTENT);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

@Override
public String getServletInfo() {
    return "Short description";
}// </editor-fold>
MessageSource source = new MessageSource();
}
class MessageSource extends Observable {
public void sendMessage(String message) {
    setChanged();
    notifyObservers(message);
}
}
class MessageSource extends Observable {
public void sendMessage(String message) {
    setChanged();
    notifyObservers(message);
}
}

class MessageSink implements Observer {
String message = null;  // set by update() and read by getNextMessage()
// Called by the message source when it gets a new message
synchronized public void update(Observable o, Object arg) {
    // Get the new message
    message = (String)arg;
    // Wake up our waiting thread
    notify();
}

// Gets the next message sent out from the message source
synchronized public String getNextMessage(MessageSource source) {
    // Tell source we want to be told about new messages
    source.addObserver(this);
    // Wait until our update() method receives a message
    while (message == null) {
        try {
            wait();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Exception has occured! ERR ERR ERR");
        }
    }
    // Tell source to stop telling us about new messages
    source.deleteObserver(this);
    // Now return the message we received
    // But first set the message instance variable to null
    // so update() and getNextMessage() can be called again.
    String messageCopy = message;
    message = null;
    return messageCopy;
}
}