1 /* 2 * Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Christian Siefkes <christian@siefkes.net>. 3 * Development of this software is supported by the German Research Society, 4 * Berlin-Brandenburg Graduate School in Distributed Information Systems 5 * (DFG grant no. GRK 316). 6 * 7 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 8 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public 9 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either 10 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 11 * 12 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 13 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 14 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 15 * Lesser General Public License for more details. 16 * 17 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 18 * License along with this library; if not, visit 19 * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html or write to the Free Software 20 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. 21 */ 22 package de.fu_berlin.ties; 23 24 import java.io.IOException; 25 26 /*** 27 * Classes implementing this interface announce that they should be closed 28 * for releasing all resources and stopping any background activity. 29 * The creator of a closeable instance is responsible for calling the 30 * {@link #close(int)} when the instance is no longer in use. 31 * 32 * @author Christian Siefkes 33 * @version $Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2004/05/18 14:06:41 $, $Author: siefkes $ 34 */ 35 public interface Closeable { 36 37 /*** 38 * Closes this instance, releasing all resources and stopping any 39 * background threads. 40 * 41 * @param errorCount the number of errors (exceptions) that occurred during 42 * calls to this instance (0 if none) 43 * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs 44 * @throws ProcessingException if an error occurs during processing any 45 * remaining input 46 */ 47 void close(final int errorCount) throws IOException, ProcessingException; 48 49 }