// BlockingThread.java // (C) 2008 by Michael Peter Christen; mc@yacy.net, Frankfurt a. M., Germany // first published 27.03.2008 on http://yacy.net // // $LastChangedDate$ // $LastChangedRevision$ // $LastChangedBy$ // // LICENSE // // 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 version 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 program; if not, write to the Free Software // Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA package net.yacy.kelondro.workflow; public interface BlockingThread<J extends WorkflowJob> extends WorkflowThread { public void setManager(final WorkflowProcessor<J> queue); public WorkflowProcessor<J> getManager(); public J job(final J next) throws Exception; // performes one job procedure; this loopes until terminate() is called // job returns true if it has done something // it returns false if it is idle and does not expect to work on more for a longer time }