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1 /* 2 * Copyright (c) 1998-2001, The University of Sheffield. 3 * 4 * This file is part of GATE (see http://gate.ac.uk/), and is free 5 * software, licenced under the GNU Library General Public License, 6 * Version 2, June 1991 (in the distribution as file licence.html, 7 * and also available at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/licence.html). 8 * 9 * Valentin Tablan 21 Sep 2001 10 * 11 * $Id: Executable.java,v 1.1 2001/09/26 18:23:05 valyt Exp $ 12 */ 13 package gate; 14 15 import gate.util.*; 16 import gate.creole.*; 17 18 /** 19 * Describes entities that can be executed such as {@link ProcessingResource}s 20 * or {@link Controller}s. 21 */ 22 public interface Executable { 23 24 /** 25 * Starts the execution of this executable 26 */ 27 public void execute() throws ExecutionException; 28 29 /** 30 * Notifies this executable that it should stop its execution as soon as 31 * possible. 32 */ 33 public void interrupt(); 34 35 /** 36 * Returns true if this executable has been interrupted via the 37 * {@link interrupt()} method since the last time its {@link execute()} method 38 * was called 39 */ 40 public boolean isInterrupted(); 41 }
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