org.globus.cog.karajan.workflow.futures
Interface Future

All Known Subinterfaces:

FutureIterator, FutureList

All Known Implementing Classes:

ForwardArgumentFuture, FutureNameBindingVariableArguments, FutureNamedArgument, FutureVariableArguments, FutureVariableArguments.Iterator, FutureVariableArgumentsOperator

public interface Future

Method Summary

void	addModificationAction(EventListener target, Event event) When the future becomes available, send the event to the element.
void	close()
void	fail(FutureEvaluationException e) Signal to any threads waiting on this future that the evaluation of the future has failed.
Object	getValue()
boolean	isClosed()

Method Detail

close

void close()

isClosed

boolean isClosed()

getValue

Object getValue()
                throws ExecutionException

Throws:

ExecutionException

fail

void fail(FutureEvaluationException e)

Signal to any threads waiting on this future that the evaluation of the future has failed. The exception passed through this method should be thrown by all sub-sequent calls to getValue();

addModificationAction

void addModificationAction(EventListener target,
                           Event event)

When the future becomes available, send the event to the element.