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* ALMA - Atacama Large Millimiter Array
* (c) European Southern Observatory, 2002
* Copyright by ESO (in the framework of the ALMA collaboration)
* and Cosylab 2002, All rights reserved
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*/
package alma.ACS.jbaci;
import alma.ACS.CBDescOut;
import alma.ACS.Callback;
import alma.ACSErr.Completion;
/**
* Interface defining generic method to dispatch a callback.
* @author <a href="mailto:matej.sekoranjaATcosylab.com">Matej Sekoranja</a>
* @version $id$
*/
public interface CallbackDispatcher {
/**
* 'done' callback type constant.
*/
public static final int DONE_TYPE = 0;
/**
* 'working' callback type constant.
*/
public static final int WORKING_TYPE = 1;
/**
* Dispatches a callback.
* @param type type of the callback (not strong typed to be flexible?!).
* @param value value to be delivered.
* @param callback callback.
* @param competion completion.
* @param desc callback out-descriptor.
* @return <code>true</code> if callback was successfully delivered, <code>false</code> on failure.
*/
public boolean dispatchCallback(int type, Object value,
Callback callback, Completion completion, CBDescOut desc);
}