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Interface Executable

All Known Subinterfaces:

ConditionalController, Controller, CorpusController, Gazetteer, LanguageAnalyser, OntoGazetteer, ProcessingResource

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractController, AbstractCoreferencer, AbstractGazetteer, AbstractLanguageAnalyser, AbstractOntoGazetteer, AbstractProcessingResource, ANNIETransducer, AnnotationDeletePR, AnnotationSetTransfer, APFormatExporter, ChineseTokeniser, ConditionalSerialAnalyserController, ConditionalSerialController, Coreferencer, DefaultGazetteer, DefaultTokeniser, DumpingPR, FlexibleGazetteer, GazetteerListsCollector, Kea, MachineLearningPR, Morph, NominalCoref, OntoGazetteerImpl, OntologyAwareTransducer, OrthoMatcher, POSTagger, PronominalCoref, RDFFormatExporter, SearchPR, SentenceSplitter, SerialAnalyserController, SerialController, SimpleTokeniser, TestNLGLexiconPR, Transducer, VPChunker

public interface Executable

Describes entities that can be executed such as ProcessingResources or Controllers.

Method Summary

void	execute() Starts the execution of this executable
void	interrupt() Notifies this executable that it should stop its execution as soon as possible.
boolean	isInterrupted() Returns true if this executable has been interrupted via the interrupt() method since the last time its execute() method was called

Method Detail

execute

void execute()
             throws ExecutionException

Starts the execution of this executable

Throws:

ExecutionException

interrupt

void interrupt()

Notifies this executable that it should stop its execution as soon as possible.

isInterrupted

boolean isInterrupted()

Returns true if this executable has been interrupted via the interrupt() method since the last time its execute() method was called