hydra.blackboard

Interface SharedCondition

public interface SharedCondition

A condition object useful for synchronizing between Hydra VMs. One VM can wait on the condition, and another VM can signal the condition. You must aquire the lock associated with this condition before calling await or signal

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	await() Wait for another thread to signal this condition.
void	signal() Wake up one of the waiting threads
void	signalAll() Wake up all of the waiting threads

Method Detail

await

void await()
    throws InterruptedException

Wait for another thread to signal this condition. Note that this wait is subject to spurious wakups, so the caller should wait in a loop with some sort of shared flag (perhaps by using a hydra blackboard).

Throws:

InterruptedException - if the waiting thread on the master was interrupted.

signal

void signal()

Wake up one of the waiting threads

signalAll

void signalAll()

Wake up all of the waiting threads