On Tue, 1 May 2001, James Strachan wrote:
> > How about merging "Object removeNoWait()" into "Object remove(long
> > timeout)" where removeNoWait()==remove(0) ???
>
> Good idea.
>
> Though on further reflection the remove(long timeout) method throws
> exceptions:-
>
> public Object remove(long timeout) throws InterruptedException,
> TimeoutException;
>
> So I'd prefer to have a helper method for non-blocking access,
> removeNoWait() that avoids having to catch wait() related exceptions. The
> method would also be a tad quicker...
>
> public synchronized Object removeNoWait() {
> return queue.isEmpty() ? null : queue.removeFirst();
> }
>
Sounds good.
> BTW is there much code out there already using the threading package or is
> it still in the early days of development? Or to put that another way, its
> not a big deal to change the API now is it?
>
I've got some old legacy code based on these classes (with JServ-based
package names), but none of that is relevant to this discussion. Now is
definitely the time to make any changes we want, before any Jakarta code
uses it.
> I'd be happy to port the threading over to the new, proposed API if there
> are no objections.
>
+1
> James
>
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