The Producer/Consumer Model in Java

1. Implement a bounded Queue class that takes the size as a parameter to the constructor. The enqueue and dequeue methods insert and remove Java Objects, respectively. They must be synchronized to avoid race conditions between the producer and consumer.

2. Write a Producer class that generates random data (or reads it from a file) and enqueues that data into the queue. Also write a Consumer class that extends class Thread. The Consumer attempts to dequeue elements from the queue and prints the results to the screen. The Producer and Consumer should either extend class Thread or implement interface Runnable.

3. Use notifyAll and wait to prevent deadlocks between the Producer and Consumer. In addition, integrate a timed wait mechanism into the enqueue and dequeue methods so that they will throw a TimeoutException if the methods take too long to execute.

4. Add command line arguments to have multiple Producer and Consumer objects to test the effectiveness of the bounded Queue.

5. Measure the amount of time required to send n message from producers to consumers and generate a metric that indicates the time spent to process each message.

Script to run the Thread demo.

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