/*
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Copyright (C) 2006 The Lobo Project
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
verion 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
Contact info: lobochief@users.sourceforge.net
*/
/*
* Created on Mar 31, 2005
*/
package org.lobobrowser.async;
/**
* Used by methods that need to return results asynchronously. Results are
* received in the event dispatch thread. This is a generic class that takes a
* type parameter <code>TResult</code>, the type of the expected result object.
*
* @author J. H. S.
*/
public interface AsyncResult<TResult> {
/**
* Registers a listener of asynchronous results.
*
* @param listener
*/
public void addResultListener(AsyncResultListener<TResult> listener);
/**
* Removes a listener.
*/
public void removeResultListener(AsyncResultListener<TResult> listener);
/**
* Forces listeners to be notified of a result if there is one.
*/
public void signal();
}