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/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 1997, 2008 by ProSyst Software GmbH
* http://www.prosyst.com
* 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:
* ProSyst Software GmbH - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.equinox.internal.util.threadpool;
/**
* Gives access to the user-provided Runnable object of the thread. All threads
* created by the ThreadPoolManager service implement that interface, so that in
* a method called by such a thread you can get the Runnable object provided in
* <code>
* ThreadPoolManager.execute(Runnable job, String threadName)</code>
* with the following line:
* <p>
* <code><ul> Runnable runnable = ((ThreadContext) Thread.currentThread()).getRunnable();</ul></code>
*
* @author Pavlin Dobrev
* @version 1.0
*/
public interface ThreadContext {
/**
* Returns the Runnable object provided in the
* <code>ThreadPoolManager.execute(Runnable job, String threadName)</code>
* method.
*/
public Runnable getRunnable();
}