001/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 002 The Kiwi Toolkit - A Java Class Library 003 Copyright (C) 1998-2004 Mark A. Lindner 004 005 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 006 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as 007 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the 008 License, or (at your option) any later version. 009 010 This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 011 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 012 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 013 General Public License for more details. 014 015 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 016 along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software 017 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 018 02111-1307, USA. 019 020 The author may be contacted at: mark_a_lindner@yahoo.com 021 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 022 $Log: Resource.java,v $ 023 Revision 1.5 2004/05/05 21:22:45 markl 024 Comment header updates. 025 026 Revision 1.4 2003/01/19 09:42:39 markl 027 Javadoc & comment header updates. 028 029 Revision 1.3 2001/03/12 03:16:49 markl 030 *** empty log message *** 031 032 Revision 1.2 1999/04/23 07:32:57 markl 033 Removed unneeded method. 034 035 Revision 1.1 1999/04/19 05:32:24 markl 036 Initial revision 037 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 038*/ 039 040package kiwi.util; 041 042/** An interface that describes a <i>resource</i>. A resource is an exclusive 043 * entity that may be in use by one thread at a time; a thread must reserve a 044 * resource from a resource pool, use the resource, and then release the 045 * resource so that it may be used by another thread. 046 * 047 * @see kiwi.util.ResourcePool 048 * 049 * @author Mark Lindner 050 */ 051 052public interface Resource 053 { 054 /** Reserve the resource. */ 055 056 public void reserve(); 057 058 /** Release the resource. */ 059 060 public void release(); 061 } 062 063/* end of source file */