org.apache.avalon.cornerstone.services.threads
Interface ThreadManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractThreadManager

public interface ThreadManager

Manage a set of ThreadPools.

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2004/03/15 13:06:46 $

Author:

Avalon Development Team

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

ROLE

Method Summary

ThreadPool	getDefaultThreadPool() Retrieve the default thread pool.
ThreadPool	getThreadPool(java.lang.String name) Retrieve a thread pool by name.

Field Detail

ROLE

public static final java.lang.String ROLE

Method Detail

getThreadPool

public ThreadPool getThreadPool(java.lang.String name)
                         throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

Retrieve a thread pool by name.

Parameters:

name - the name of thread pool

Returns:

the threadpool

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if the name of thread pool is invalid or named pool does not exist

getDefaultThreadPool

public ThreadPool getDefaultThreadPool()

Retrieve the default thread pool.

Returns:

the thread pool