/******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2007, 2010 Association for Decentralized Information Management * in Industry THTH ry. * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * * Contributors: * VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - initial API and implementation *******************************************************************************/ package org.simantics.utils.threads.ua; import java.util.Collection; /** * Worker executes tasks. *
* Hint! To execute work synchronously use:
* Worker.asyncExec(runnable, null).waitForState(WorkState.FINAL_STATES);
*
* To cancel all work get the work with getQueuedWork() and invoke cancel() to each.
*
* @see SynchronizedWorker
* @see ThreadPool
* @author Toni Kalajainen (toni.kalajainen@vtt.fi)
*/
public interface Worker extends StatefulExecutor {
/**
* Execute work (async).
*
* @param runnable
* @param initialListener listener initially set on monitor object or null
* @return async work monitor object
*/
WorkMonitor asyncExec(Runnable runnable, StateListener