/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2013 Bruno Medeiros and other Contributors.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Bruno Medeiros - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package melnorme.utilbox.concurrency;
/**
* An {@link ITaskAgent} is a concurrency computational entity,
* consisting of a single worker thread running in the background,
* whose purpose is to execute tasks submitted to it in sequence.
*
* It works in a similar way to an event loop, or an Actor in the Actor concurrency model.
*/
public interface ITaskAgent extends ICommonExecutor {
/**
* Waits for all tasks that have been submitted so far to complete.
* It will not wait for tasks submitted after it begins waiting.
*/
void waitForPendingTasks() throws InterruptedException;
}