org.monte.media.concurrent

Class SequentialDispatcher

java.lang.Object

org.monte.media.concurrent.EventLoop

org.monte.media.concurrent.SequentialDispatcher

public class SequentialDispatcher
extends EventLoop

Processes Runnable objects sequentially on a processor thread. The order in which the runnable objects are processed is the same in which they were added to the dispatcher.

Design pattern used: Acceptor Role in design pattern: EventCollector and EventProcessor

Version:

1.0 2002-05-18 Created

Author:

Werner Randelshofef

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.monte.media.concurrent.EventLoop

eventProcessor

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
SequentialDispatcher() Creates new SequentialDispatcher which processes Runnable objects at java.lang.Thread.NORM_PRIORITY.
SequentialDispatcher(int priority) Creates a new SequentialDispatcher which processes Runnable Objects at the desired thread priority.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	dispatch(Runnable r) Queues the Runnable object for later execution on the processor thread.
protected void	processEvent(Object event) This method processes an event on the event processor thread.

Methods inherited from class org.monte.media.concurrent.EventLoop

clear, collectEvent, isCoalesce, join, processEvents, setCoalesce, start, stop

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SequentialDispatcher

public SequentialDispatcher()

Creates new SequentialDispatcher which processes Runnable objects at java.lang.Thread.NORM_PRIORITY.

SequentialDispatcher

public SequentialDispatcher(int priority)

Creates a new SequentialDispatcher which processes Runnable Objects at the desired thread priority.

Parameters:

priority - The Thread priority of the event processor.

Method Detail

processEvent

protected void processEvent(Object event)

This method processes an event on the event processor thread.

Specified by:

processEvent in class EventLoop

Parameters:

event - An event from the queue.

dispatch

public void dispatch(Runnable r)

Queues the Runnable object for later execution on the processor thread.