org.jbpm.jobexecutor
Class DispatcherThread

java.lang.Object
  extended by java.lang.Thread
      extended by org.jbpm.jobexecutor.DispatcherThread
All Implemented Interfaces:
java.lang.Runnable

public class DispatcherThread
extends java.lang.Thread

this thread is responsible for acquiring jobs in the job that need to be executed and then let the JobExecutor dispatch the acquired ids to one of the JobExecutorThreads in the pool. There is only one dispatcher thread per JobExecutor.

Author:
Tom Baeyens, Guillaume Porcher

Nested Class Summary
 
Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.lang.Thread
java.lang.Thread.State, java.lang.Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler
 
Field Summary
 
Fields inherited from class java.lang.Thread
MAX_PRIORITY, MIN_PRIORITY, NORM_PRIORITY
 
Method Summary
protected  java.util.Collection<java.lang.Long> acquireJobs()
           
 void deactivate()
           
 void deactivate(boolean join)
           
protected  java.util.Date getNextDueDate()
           
protected  long getWaitPeriod()
           
 boolean isActive()
           
 void jobWasAdded()
           
protected  void putAcquiredJobDbidsOnQueue(java.util.Collection<java.lang.Long> acquiredJobDbids)
           
 void run()
           
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Thread
activeCount, checkAccess, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getAllStackTraces, getContextClassLoader, getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, getId, getName, getPriority, getStackTrace, getState, getThreadGroup, getUncaughtExceptionHandler, holdsLock, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, setName, setPriority, setUncaughtExceptionHandler, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait
 

Method Detail

run

public void run()
Specified by:
run in interface java.lang.Runnable
Overrides:
run in class java.lang.Thread

putAcquiredJobDbidsOnQueue

protected void putAcquiredJobDbidsOnQueue(java.util.Collection<java.lang.Long> acquiredJobDbids)

acquireJobs

protected java.util.Collection<java.lang.Long> acquireJobs()

getNextDueDate

protected java.util.Date getNextDueDate()

getWaitPeriod

protected long getWaitPeriod()

deactivate

public void deactivate()

deactivate

public void deactivate(boolean join)

jobWasAdded

public void jobWasAdded()

isActive

public boolean isActive()