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Added Java files from Maxine project.
author Thomas Wuerthinger <thomas.wuerthinger@oracle.com>
date Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:59:18 +0100
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1 /*
2 * Copyright (c) 2007, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
3 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
4 *
5 * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
6 * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
7 * published by the Free Software Foundation.
8 *
9 * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
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14 *
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22 */
23 package com.sun.max.lang;
24
25 import java.util.concurrent.*;
26
27 /**
28 * Creates a function wrapper for a method that returns a value and may throw a checked exception.
29 * This interface extends {@link Callable} so that {@code Function}s can be used with an {@link ExecutorService}.
30 */
31 public interface Function<T> extends Callable<T> {
32
33 /**
34 * Computes a result, or throws an exception if unable to do so.
35 *
36 * @return computed result (which will be {@code null} if {@code Result_Type} is {@link Void})
37 * @throws Exception if unable to compute a result
38 */
39 T call() throws Exception;
40
41 }