This is the most current version of the Retailer Game's Java client. This version is modified by Kuo-Di Jian on 3/16/99. The game is rehosted to oit machine. Previously, it is in banquo. The long package name is cut short and All the files that are related to the Retailer game are put in one place. The most recent additions are the addition of forecasting and market research tools from two recent Masters projects. Giving credit where credit is due:

• Main Java client: Brad Vender
• Market Research tool: Jun Zhou
• Forecasting: Hong Wu
• Server code: Many and numerous.

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Things which are important to note:

• If you are using a browser like Netscape and try to set Netscape's disk cache size too low (or turn it off like I always try to do on my quotaed accounts, the applet will tend to hang often. This is especially true for the NDSU Sod Cluster.
• There appears to be some trouble dealing with non-existant URLs. Checking for a positive content length, and using Component.prepareImage appears to work much better than using MediaTracker for downloading many images asynchronously, especially when many many MediaTrackers would be used.
• There is a bug in the thread restarting code. At the moment, if you use the browser's back and foreward buttons to come back to this page, the image loader will crash if you don't hit the reload control.