com.agentfactory.cldc.scheduler
Class WorkerThread

java.lang.Object
  java.lang.Thread
      com.agentfactory.cldc.scheduler.WorkerThread

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Runnable

public class WorkerThread
extends java.lang.Thread

The worker threads extract tasks from the task buffer and execute them.

Author:

Conor Muldoon

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.lang.Thread

java.lang.Thread.State, java.lang.Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class java.lang.Thread

MAX_PRIORITY, MIN_PRIORITY, NORM_PRIORITY

Constructor Summary

WorkerThread(Buffer buffer, java.util.Vector activeSet)
Creates a new instance of WorkerThread.

Method Summary

void	destroy() Kills the thread (Provided the buffer has been interrupted).
void	run() While the thread is alive, removes tasks from the tast buffer, executes them, and then removes them from the active set.
void	toggle() Toggles the worker thread from active to inactive and vice versa.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Thread

activeCount, checkAccess, countStackFrames, currentThread, dumpStack, enumerate, getAllStackTraces, getContextClassLoader, getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, getId, getName, getPriority, getStackTrace, getState, getThreadGroup, getUncaughtExceptionHandler, holdsLock, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, setName, setPriority, setUncaughtExceptionHandler, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

WorkerThread

public WorkerThread(Buffer buffer,
                    java.util.Vector activeSet)

Creates a new instance of WorkerThread.

Parameters:

buffer - the buffer to extract tasks from.

activeSet - the set of active tasks.

Method Detail

run

public void run()

While the thread is alive, removes tasks from the tast buffer, executes them, and then removes them from the active set.

Specified by:

run in interface java.lang.Runnable

Overrides:

run in class java.lang.Thread

toggle

public void toggle()

Toggles the worker thread from active to inactive and vice versa.

destroy

public void destroy()

Kills the thread (Provided the buffer has been interrupted).

Overrides:

destroy in class java.lang.Thread