1 /*
2 File: BoundedChannel.java
3
4 Originally written by Doug Lea and released into the public domain.
5 This may be used for any purposes whatsoever without acknowledgment.
6 Thanks for the assistance and support of Sun Microsystems Labs,
7 and everyone contributing, testing, and using this code.
8
9 History:
10 Date Who What
11 11Jun1998 dl Create public version
12 */
13
14
15 package org.dbunit.util.concurrent;
16
17 /**
18 * A channel that is known to have a capacity, signifying
19 * that <code>put</code> operations may block when the
20 * capacity is reached. Various implementations may have
21 * intrinsically hard-wired capacities, capacities that are fixed upon
22 * construction, or dynamically adjustable capacities.
23 * @see DefaultChannelCapacity
24 * <p>[<a href="http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/classes/EDU/oswego/cs/dl/util/concurrent/intro.html"> Introduction to this package. </a>] <p>
25 *
26 * @author Doug Lea
27 * @author Last changed by: $Author$
28 * @version $Revision$ $Date$
29 * @since ? (pre 2.1)
30 *
31 */
32 public interface BoundedChannel extends Channel {
33 /**
34 * Return the maximum number of elements that can be held.
35 * @return the capacity of this channel.
36 **/
37 public int capacity();
38 }