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1 /***
2  * Jonathan: an Open Distributed Processing Environment
3  * Copyright (C) 1999 France Telecom R&D
4  *
5  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6  * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
7  * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
8  * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
9  *
10  * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
13  * Lesser General Public License for more details.
14  *
15  * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
16  * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
17  * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
18  *
19  * Release: 2.0
20  *
21  * Contact: jonathan@objectweb.org
22  *
23  * Author: Bruno Dumant
24  *
25  */
26
27
28 package org.objectweb.jonathan.apis.resources;
29
30 import org.objectweb.jonathan.apis.kernel.Context;
31
32 /**
33  * A Job is the abstraction of an activity in the system. Jobs are created and
34  * managed by {@link Scheduler schedulers}. The role of a job is to
35  * {@link #run execute} code.
36  */
37 public interface Job {
38    
39    /**
40     * Tells the target job to execute the code manifested by the <tt>message</tt>
41     * argument.
42     * @param message code to be executed.
43     */
44    public void run(Runnable JavaDoc message);
45
46    /**
47     * Returns a context associated with the target Job.
48     * @return a context associated with the target Job.
49     */
50    public Context getContext();
51 }
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