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/***************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2004 - 2007 Eike Stepper, Germany.
* 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:
* Eike Stepper - initial API and implementation
**************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.net4j.util.concurrent;
/**
* Synchronizes a producer and a consumer thread letting the producer pass a
* value to the consumer. Both producer and consumer must have access to this
* {@link ISynchronizer} and there must only ever exist one consumer for it.
* Once the result value is consumed by the consumer this {@link ISynchronizer}
* must not be reused.
* <p>
*
* @author Eike Stepper
*/
public interface ISynchronizer<RESULT>
{
public RESULT get(long timeout);
public void put(RESULT result);
public boolean put(RESULT result, long timeout);
}
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