edu.vub.at.actors.eventloops
Class FutureEvent

java.lang.Object
  edu.vub.at.actors.eventloops.Event
      edu.vub.at.actors.eventloops.FutureEvent

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

public abstract class FutureEvent

extends Event

A Future Event has an associated Future object to which the event will pass the return value or exception of a certain computation to be specified by a subclass.

Author:

tvcutsem

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

private Future

future_

Fields inherited from class edu.vub.at.actors.eventloops.Event

Constructor Summary

FutureEvent(Future reply)

FutureEvent(java.lang.String description, Future reply)

Method Summary

abstract java.lang.Object	execute(java.lang.Object owner)
void	process(java.lang.Object owner) This method may be invoked by the receiving event loop such that the event can process itself.

Methods inherited from class edu.vub.at.actors.eventloops.Event

toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

future_

private final Future future_

Constructor Detail

FutureEvent

public FutureEvent(java.lang.String description,
                   Future reply)

FutureEvent

public FutureEvent(Future reply)

Method Detail

process

public void process(java.lang.Object owner)

Description copied from class: Event

This method may be invoked by the receiving event loop such that the event can process itself.

Specified by:

process in class Event

Parameters:

owner - the object designated by the receiving event loop to be the owner of this event.

execute

public abstract java.lang.Object execute(java.lang.Object owner)
                                  throws java.lang.Exception

Throws:

java.lang.Exception