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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);
}