Package com.mackenziehigh.cascade

Interface Cascade

public interface Cascade

Micro Actor Framework.

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Interface	Description
static class	Cascade.AbstractStage	Partial Implementation of Stage.
static final class	Cascade.ArrayBlockingQueueMailbox<I>	A Mailbox implementation based on a ArrayBlockingQueue.
static final class	Cascade.ArrayDequeMailbox<I>	A Mailbox implementation based on a ArrayDeque.
static final class	Cascade.CircularArrayDequeMailbox<I>	A Mailbox implementation based on an ArrayDeque, which behaves like a ring-buffer data-structure.
static final class	Cascade.ConcurrentLinkedQueueMailbox<I>	A Mailbox implementation based on a ConcurrentLinkedQueue.
static final class	Cascade.LinkedBlockingQueueMailbox<I>	A Mailbox implementation based on a LinkedBlockingQueue.
static final class	Cascade.PriorityBlockingQueueMailbox<I>	A Mailbox implementation based on a PriorityBlockingQueue.
static interface	Cascade.Stage	A group of Actors with a common power supply.

Method Summary

Static Methods

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static Cascade.Stage	newStage()	Create a new single-threaded stage.
static Cascade.Stage	newStage(int threadCount)	Create a new multi-threaded stage.
static Cascade.Stage	newStage(int threadCount, boolean daemon)	Create a new multi-threaded stage.
static Cascade.Stage	newStage(ExecutorService service)	Create a new stage based on a given ExecutorService.

Method Details

newStage

static Cascade.Stage newStage()

Create a new single-threaded stage.

The stage will use a non-daemon thread.

Returns:

the new stage.

newStage

static Cascade.Stage newStage(int threadCount)

Create a new multi-threaded stage.

The stage will use non-daemon threads.

Parameters:

threadCount - is the number of worker threads that the stage will use.

Returns:

the new stage.

newStage

static Cascade.Stage newStage(int threadCount,
 boolean daemon)

Create a new multi-threaded stage.

Parameters:

threadCount - is the number of worker threads that the stage will use.

daemon - is true, if the threads will be daemon threads.

Returns:

the new stage.

newStage

static Cascade.Stage newStage(ExecutorService service)

Create a new stage based on a given ExecutorService.

Parameters:

service - will power the new stage.

Returns:

the new stage.