package org.jacorb.notification.engine;
/*
* JacORB - a free Java ORB
*
* Copyright (C) 1999-2014 Gerald Brose / The JacORB Team.
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
* version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This library 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
* Library General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
* License along with this library; if not, write to the Free
* Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
*
*/
import org.jacorb.notification.interfaces.Message;
import org.jacorb.notification.interfaces.MessageSupplier;
import java.util.concurrent.ScheduledFuture;
/**
* @author Alphonse Bendt
*/
public interface TaskProcessor
{
TaskFactory getTaskFactory();
/**
* process a Message. the various settings for the Message
* (timeout, starttime, stoptime) are checked and applied.
*/
void processMessage( Message mesg );
/**
* Schedule ProxyPullConsumer for pull-Operation.
* If a Supplier connects to a ProxyPullConsumer the
* ProxyPullConsumer needs to regularely poll the Supplier.
* This method queues a Task to run runPullEvent on the specified
* TimerEventSupplier
*/
void scheduleTimedPullTask( MessageSupplier dest );
////////////////////////////////////////
// Timer Operations
////////////////////////////////////////
ScheduledFuture executeTaskPeriodically( long intervall,
Runnable task,
boolean startImmediately );
ScheduledFuture executeTaskAfterDelay( long delay, Runnable task );
}