Add listeners to Callable (see www.forward.com.au for an article on how to use this package.)

The {@link au.com.forward.futureTalker.FutureTalker} class allows you to add {@link au.com.forward.futureTalker.IFutureListener}s to your tasks. These listeners will be called when the task completes or terminates with an error or is cancelled.

{@link au.com.forward.futureTalker.FutureTalker} also contains two static utility methods,

  1. {@link au.com.forward.futureTalker.FutureTalker#ifInterruptedStop ifInterruptedStop} which throws an InterruptedException {@link java.lang.InterruptedException} if the current thread has its interrupt flag set.

  2. {@link au.com.forward.futureTalker.FutureTalker#shutdownNow shutdownNow} which shuts down a ThreadPoolExecutor and then rejects {@link au.com.forward.futureTalker.FutureTalker}s and cancels Futures which were waiting to be executed.

{@link au.com.forward.futureTalker.TaskUtilities} contains a number of methods which return interruptable InputStreams, OutputStreams, Readers and Writers for FileInputStreams, FileOutputStreams, RandomAccessFiles and System.in, System.out and System.err

Similar coding can be used for Sockets and Pipes. See InterruptibleChannel for the classes availale.

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