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/*
* Copyright (c) 2007, 2011, 2012, 2015 Eike Stepper (Berlin, Germany) and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Eike Stepper - initial API and implementation
*/
package org.eclipse.net4j.util.concurrent;
/**
* Synchronizes a producer and a consumer thread letting the producer pass a value to the consumer. Both producer and
* consumer must have access to this {@link ISynchronizer} and there must only ever exist one consumer for it. Once the
* result value is consumed by the consumer this {@link ISynchronizer} must not be reused.
* <p>
*
* @author Eike Stepper
*/
public interface ISynchronizer<RESULT>
{
public RESULT get(long timeout);
public void put(RESULT result);
public boolean put(RESULT result, long timeout);
}