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package com.sun.jini.thread;
/**
* Executor is an abstraction for a thread factory or thread pool for
* executing actions asynchronously.
*
* @author Sun Microsystems, Inc.
*
*/
public interface Executor {
/**
* Executes the given Runnable action asynchronously in some thread.
*
* The implementation may create a new thread to execute the action,
* or it may execute the action in an existing thread.
*
* The execution of a given action must not be delayed indefinitely
* in order to complete execution of a different action passed to a
* different invocation of this method. In other words, the
* implementation must assume that there may be arbitrary dependencies
* between actions passed to this method, so it needs to be careful
* to avoid potential deadlock by delaying execution of one action
* indefinitely until another completes.
*
* Also, this method itself must not block, because it may be invoked
* by code that is serially processing data to produce multiple such
* arbitrarily-dependent actions that need to be executed.
*
* @param runnable the Runnable action to execute
*
* @param name string to include in the name of the thread used
* to execute the action
*/
void execute(Runnable runnable, String name);
}