Option 2 for Milestone 2

Your task is to implement the hangman game.  To refresh your memory about the hangman game you can read the rules or play it.

Components:

- user interface (either a html form or a simple text-based Java application).
- a servlet that should embed the entire logic of the game (randomly choose words from the database, answer user queries (guesses), reward or hang the user).
- a database that contains words (the location of a file with words for your table/database will be posted to the mailing list)
 

Advice and minimal requirements:

•  User Interface:
  • Don't spend too much time on user interface. Make it as simple as you can (it might be even a html page that contains no forms).  Steal as much as you can.
  • It should allow user to (re)start a game, to make a guess, to know how many 'lives' he has left.
•  Servlet:
  • Should embed the entire logic of the game.
  • Should randomly choose a word from the database provided.
  • (Extra points) Should allow multiple players.

Some implementations :

http://www.vnw.org/hangman/hangman.asp
http://www.billsgames.com/hangman/index.html
http://www.topedge.com/home/people/gaman/joc2.htm
http://www.allmixedup.com/cgi-bin/hangman/hangman?start&d=hangman

• randomly choosing a word from the words table:

      int result = (int)(Math.random() * 45389);
      rs = stmt.executeQuery("select * from words where id = " + result);

where there are 45389 records in the words table in the words table.

• Exploring the source code from Goodwill book will help you.