http://www.apache.org/excalibur/avalon-framework/avalon-framework-api/: Avalon Framework API (Apache Software Foundation) 
/*
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
 * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
 * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 * 
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 * 
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package org.apache.avalon.framework.activity;


The Executable can be implemented by components that need to perform
some work. In many respects it is similar to Runnable except that it
also allows an application to throw a non-Runtime Exception.

The work done may be short lived (ie a simple task) or it could
be a long running.


Author:Avalon Development Team
Version:$Id: Executable.java 506231 2007-02-12 02:36:54Z crossley $
/**
 * The Executable can be implemented by components that need to perform
 * some work. In many respects it is similar to Runnable except that it
 * also allows an application to throw a non-Runtime Exception.
 *
 * <p>The work done may be short lived (ie a simple task) or it could
 * be a long running.</p>
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:dev@avalon.apache.org">Avalon Development Team</a>
 * @version $Id: Executable.java 506231 2007-02-12 02:36:54Z crossley $
 */
public interface Executable
{
    
Execute the action associated with this component.

Throws:
  • Exception – if an error occurs
/**
     * Execute the action associated with this component.
     *
     * @throws Exception if an error occurs
     */
    void execute()
        throws Exception;
}