org.metasyntactic.thread.concurrent
Interface BoundedChannel

All Superinterfaces:

Channel, Puttable, Takable

All Known Implementing Classes:

BoundedBuffer

public interface BoundedChannel

extends Channel

A channel that is known to have a capacity, signifying that put operations may block when the capacity is reached. Various implementations may have intrinsically hard-wired capacities, capacities that are fixed upon construction, or dynamically adjustable capacities.

See Also:

DefaultChannelCapacity

Method Summary

int	capacity() Return the maximum number of elements that can be held.

Methods inherited from interface org.metasyntactic.thread.concurrent.Channel

peek

Methods inherited from interface org.metasyntactic.thread.concurrent.Puttable

offer, put

Methods inherited from interface org.metasyntactic.thread.concurrent.Takable

poll, take

Method Detail

capacity

public int capacity()

Return the maximum number of elements that can be held.

Returns:

the capacity of this channel.