Trying to build a library system..

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Becky - 07 Apr 2006 08:14 GMT

Hi All..

I'm trying to write a program in java that would look something like
the following:

======================
Welcome to your Library
======================

Creating catalogue.... Done
Populating catalogue.... Done
The current books in the catalogue are:

Title: The Truth
Author: Terry Pratchett
Year: 2000

Title: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Author: Douglas Adams
Year: 1995

Title: The Root of all Evil
Author: JD Frazer
Year: 2001

to build it I was thinking of having three classes: Library (used to
drive the program), Catalogue and Book..
I don't know if I'm in the right track, but in the Library class, have
method filldata() which would create an instance of catalogue and
populate the catalogue and print it..

In the catalogue class have methods such as addbook(), getbook(), and
printCatalogue(), which will talk to and get information from Books
class..

Has anyone ever written something similar? If not, I'm sure it's not
very hard to do, if someone could perhaps write the backbone of the
program and I'll finish up the specifics.. It'd be very helpful..

Thanks..

bec.

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Oliver Wong - 07 Apr 2006 17:18 GMT

> Hi All..
>
> I'm trying to write a program in java that would look something like
> the following:

Don't multipost, crosspost instead:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html

- Oliver

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Nate Smith - 07 Apr 2006 20:09 GMT

>> Hi All..
>>
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>
> - Oliver

actually, after years of getting trolling & spamming cross-posted
to the world, i'm thinking allowing cross-posting was the biggest
mistake the usenet creators made back in the days before the WWWeb.

Becky should have posted in a java language group rather than
just any group with java in its name. but perhaps a one-time
plea for homework help is fine. comp.lang.java.help, programmer,
developer....

but hey...no harm no foul.

- nate

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Oliver Wong - 10 Apr 2006 21:31 GMT

>>> Hi All..
>>>
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>
> but hey...no harm no foul.

Spam seems to be inevitable. With that in mind, spam which cross post
(so that I can mark it "read" in one group, and have it be marked "read" in
all groups) is a lot less unpleasant than spam which has been multiposted
(which I have to mark "read" in every newsgroup I encounter it in).

As the page I linked to explains, it takes less effort on the part of
the poster to crosspost instead of multiposting, and it makes for a better
experience for us, the readers. So there's almost no reason not to favor
crossposting over multiposting.

Asking a poster to "choose the appropriate newsgroup" requires actual
effort on the part of the poster. I'm not so optimistic that most posters
will go for that extra effort.

- Oliver

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Nate Smith - 10 Apr 2006 21:36 GMT

> Spam seems to be inevitable. With that in mind, spam which cross post
> (so that I can mark it "read" in one group, and have it be marked "read"
> in all groups) is a lot less unpleasant than spam which has been
> multiposted (which I have to mark "read" in every newsgroup I encounter
> it in).

wow, you are lucky.

that never works for me - i have to kill them in every group
they appear in.

infact, that has never worked for me, dating all the way
back into the 80's.

how do you get it to work that way?

- nate

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Roedy Green - 10 Apr 2006 23:22 GMT

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:36:53 -0400, Nate Smith
<greystone@net1plus.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

> that never works for me - i have to kill them in every group
> they appear in.
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>
> how do you get it to work that way?

in Agent when you set up a kill filter you have the option of doing
one for all groups or just one.
see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/agent.html

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