org.jscience.computing.distributed
Interface InteractiveTask

All Superinterfaces:

java.io.Serializable, Task

All Known Implementing Classes:

FineGrainedInteractiveTasks, MultiInteractiveTask

public interface InteractiveTask
extends Task

A task that can also perform I/O during the task opearation through get and set methods.

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	get(java.lang.Object params) Used to get output from the task
void	set(java.lang.Object paramsAndWhat) Used to send input to the task

Methods inherited from interface org.jscience.computing.distributed.Task

run

Method Detail

get

java.lang.Object get(java.lang.Object params)

Used to get output from the task

Parameters:

params - can be null if this task doesn't need to know WHAT it has to output

Returns:

Any amount of information can be provided by the task packaged in an Object.

set

void set(java.lang.Object paramsAndWhat)

Used to send input to the task

Parameters:

paramsAndWhat - this could be anything, either a single object if the task knows what to do with it, or a container with variable->value pairs..