/*

  * Copyright 1999-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.

  * 

  * Licensed 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

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  */

 package org.apache.commons.threadpool;

 /** 

  * An interface representing some kind of thread pool which allows

  * asynchronous dispatching of Runnable tasks. It is the responsibility

  * of the Runnable task to handle exceptions gracefully. Any non handled

  * exception will typically just be logged. 

  * Though a ThreadPool implementation could have some custom Exception handler

  * 

  * @author <a href="mailto:jstrachan@apache.org">James Strachan</a>

  * @version $Revision: 155472 $

  */

 public interface ThreadPool {

     /** 

      * Dispatch a new task onto this pool 

      * to be invoked asynchronously later.

      */

     public void invokeLater(Runnable task);

 }