com.edorasware.cmmn.engine.utility

Interface Synchronizer

All Known Implementing Classes:

CaseSynchronizer

public interface Synchronizer

An interface intended to be implemented as a singleton. It allows to get a unique synchronization object keyed by a string Id.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Object	getSynchObject(String id) Get the synch object associated with the passed id.
boolean	releaseSynchObject(String id) Release the synch object associated with the passed id.

Method Detail

getSynchObject

Object getSynchObject(String id)

Get the synch object associated with the passed id. Once this method returns, we are save to assume that we have exclusive access to the resource represented by id.

releaseSynchObject

boolean releaseSynchObject(String id)

Release the synch object associated with the passed id.

Returns:

true if the resource associated with the passed id has been released. false if the current thread is still holding the resource due to a recursive invocation of getSynchObject(String).