1 /* 2 * ################################################################ 3 * 4 * ProActive: The Java(TM) library for Parallel, Distributed, 5 * Concurrent computing with Security and Mobility 6 * 7 * Copyright (C) 1997-2002 INRIA/University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis 8 * Contact: proactive-support@inria.fr 9 * 10 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 11 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public 12 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either 13 * version 2.1 of the License, or any later version. 14 * 15 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 16 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 17 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 18 * Lesser General Public License for more details. 19 * 20 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 21 * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software 22 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 23 * USA 24 * 25 * Initial developer(s): The ProActive Team 26 * http://www.inria.fr/oasis/ProActive/contacts.html 27 * Contributor(s): 28 * 29 * ################################################################ 30 */ 31 package org.objectweb.proactive; 32 33 /** 34 * <P> 35 * An object instance of this class is to be returned when a method of an active 36 * object needs to be called synchronously. No real data is expected as a result, 37 * but the caller needs to wait the actual execution (service) of the request. 38 * Because the class is final, the reified call cannot return a future and will 39 * do a synchronous call. 40 * </P><P> 41 * This type can be used instead of void to perform the synchronous call. Note that 42 * any final object will result in the same behaviour. 43 * </P> 44 * @author ProActive Team 45 * @version 1.0, 2001/10/23 46 * @since ProActive 0.9 47 * 48 */ 49 public final class ObjectForSynchronousCall extends Object implements java.io.Serializable { 50 51 /** 52 * No arg constructor for Serializable 53 */ 54 public ObjectForSynchronousCall() { 55 } 56 }