1 /*
2 * Copyright 2012 The Netty Project
3 *
4 * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
5 * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
6 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
7 *
8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
12 * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
13 * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
14 * under the License.
15 */
16
17 package org.jboss.netty.channel.socket;
18
19 /**
20 * A {@link Worker} is responsible to dispatch IO operations
21 *
22 */
23 public interface Worker extends Runnable {
24
25 /**
26 * Execute the given {@link Runnable} in the IO-Thread. This may be now or
27 * later once the IO-Thread do some other work.
28 *
29 * @param task
30 * the {@link Runnable} to execute
31 */
32 void executeInIoThread(Runnable task);
33 }