net.sf.zig_project.gpl.common.queue
Interface OrderedQueue

All Superinterfaces:

OrderedBlockingQueue, Queue

All Known Subinterfaces:

GenericQueue

All Known Implementing Classes:

LinearOrderedQueue, PriorityQueue

public interface OrderedQueue

extends OrderedBlockingQueue

Provides a Queue that orders it's elements for removal. Implementations may declare varying mechanisms for adding elements in order to determine an appropriate order for them.

Version:

October 12, 2004

Author:

Frank Ziglar

Method Summary

Object

removeNext() Removes the next Object from the queue.

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.zig_project.gpl.common.queue.OrderedBlockingQueue

peekNext

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.zig_project.gpl.common.queue.Queue

clear, contains, elements, isEmpty, remove

Method Detail

removeNext

public Object removeNext()

Removes the next Object from the queue. This method always returns immediately. If the Queue is empty at the time this method is called, it will return null instead of waiting.

Specified by:

removeNext in interface OrderedBlockingQueue

Returns:

the next Object in the queue, or null if the queue was empty.