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package org.eclipse.jpt.common.utility.command;
/**
* This interface allows clients to control a command's context.
* This is useful when the server provides the command but the client provides
* the context (e.g. the client would like to dispatch the command to the UI
* thread).
* <p>
* Provisional API: This interface is part of an interim API that is still
* under development and expected to change significantly before reaching
* stability. It is available at this early stage to solicit feedback from
* pioneering adopters on the understanding that any code that uses this API
* will almost certainly be broken (repeatedly) as the API evolves.
*/
public interface CommandContext {
/**
* Execute the specified command, synchronously or asynchronously.
* The commands themselves must be executed in the order in which
* they are passed to the command context (at least when passed
* from clients executing on the same thread).
*/
void execute(Command command);
}