From da66af5951b18b6f5e8752cbbe11f5f842332a33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew John Hughes Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:25:39 +0000 Subject: 2006-12-10 Andrew John Hughes * Merge of generics-branch to HEAD (woohoo!) --- external/jsr166/java/util/concurrent/Callable.java | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) create mode 100644 external/jsr166/java/util/concurrent/Callable.java (limited to 'external/jsr166/java/util/concurrent/Callable.java') diff --git a/external/jsr166/java/util/concurrent/Callable.java b/external/jsr166/java/util/concurrent/Callable.java new file mode 100644 index 000000000..abc4d0407 --- /dev/null +++ b/external/jsr166/java/util/concurrent/Callable.java @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +/* + * Written by Doug Lea with assistance from members of JCP JSR-166 + * Expert Group and released to the public domain, as explained at + * http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain + */ + +package java.util.concurrent; + +/** + * A task that returns a result and may throw an exception. + * Implementors define a single method with no arguments called + * call. + * + *

The Callable interface is similar to {@link + * java.lang.Runnable}, in that both are designed for classes whose + * instances are potentially executed by another thread. A + * Runnable, however, does not return a result and cannot + * throw a checked exception. + * + *

The {@link Executors} class contains utility methods to + * convert from other common forms to Callable classes. + * + * @see Executor + * @since 1.5 + * @author Doug Lea + * @param the result type of method call + */ +public interface Callable { + /** + * Computes a result, or throws an exception if unable to do so. + * + * @return computed result + * @throws Exception if unable to compute a result + */ + V call() throws Exception; +} -- cgit v1.2.1