001    /*
002     * Copyright 1999-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
003     * 
004     * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005     * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006     * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007     * 
008     *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
009     * 
010     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011     * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
012     * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
013     * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
014     * limitations under the License.
015     */
016    package org.apache.commons.threadpool;
017    
018    /** 
019     * An interface representing some kind of thread pool which allows
020     * asynchronous dispatching of Runnable tasks. It is the responsibility
021     * of the Runnable task to handle exceptions gracefully. Any non handled
022     * exception will typically just be logged. 
023     * Though a ThreadPool implementation could have some custom Exception handler
024     * 
025     * @author <a href="mailto:jstrachan@apache.org">James Strachan</a>
026     * @version $Revision: 155472 $
027     */
028    public interface ThreadPool {
029    
030        /** 
031         * Dispatch a new task onto this pool 
032         * to be invoked asynchronously later.
033         */
034        public void invokeLater(Runnable task);
035    }