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Interface Supplier

All Known Subinterfaces:

Channel

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractChannel

public interface Supplier

Consumer interface is used to store items. The Channel & Adapter classes are the major implementations of this Interface. Credits: (1) Doug Lea's concurrency package. (2) The Filter/Pipe pattern in the POSA book.

Since:

1.0

Author:

Pete McKinstry

Method Summary

java.util.Collection	pull(int max) Get a collection from the channel, possibly waiting indefinitely until a group of items can be returned.
void	registerMonitor(Monitor m) Register Object for notification when records are available.

Method Detail

pull

public java.util.Collection pull(int max)
                          throws ProcessingException

Get a collection from the channel, possibly waiting indefinitely until a group of items can be returned.

Parameters:

max - - the max number of records to pull from the channel.

Returns:

Collection of records from the channel.

Throws:

ProcessingException - error extracting records.

Since:

1.0

registerMonitor

public void registerMonitor(Monitor m)

Register Object for notification when records are available.

Parameters:

m -