org.beanlet
Annotation Type Execute

@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
@Target(value=METHOD)
public @interface Execute

Methods declared with this annotation are executed by one or more background threads.

Method Constraints

The method on which the Execute annotation is applied MUST fulfill all of the following criteria:

• The method MUST NOT have any parameters.
• The method MAY return any type.
• The method MAY throw a checked exception.
• The method on which Execute is applied MAY be public, protected, package private or private.
• The method MUST NOT be static.
• The method MAY be final.

XML Representation

The following xml-fragment shows how to express this annotation in xml. The italic attribute of the 'execute' tag is used to identify the element to which this annotation is applied. The other attributes can be specified optionally if the annotation specifies a default value for the particular annotation methods.

<beanlets xmlns="http://beanlet.org/schema/beanlet"
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://beanlet.org/schema/beanlet http://beanlet.org/schema/beanlet/beanlet_1_0.xsd">
  <beanlet name="foo" type="com.acme.Foo">
    <execute method="bar" threads="1" loop="false"
             interrupt="false" join="false" description=""/>
  </beanlet>
</beanlets>

Optional Element Summary

String	description Description of the underlying executalbe method.
boolean	interrupt If true, the running threads are interrupted on destroy.
boolean	join If true, the container waits until this component has finished the runnable method on destroy.
boolean	loop If true, the method is called in a loop.
int	threads Number of threads that call the runnable method concurrently.

threads

public abstract int threads

Number of threads that call the runnable method concurrently.

Default:

1

loop

public abstract boolean loop

If true, the method is called in a loop.

Default:

false

interrupt

public abstract boolean interrupt

If true, the running threads are interrupted on destroy.

Default:

false

join

public abstract boolean join

If true, the container waits until this component has finished the runnable method on destroy.

Default:

false

description

public abstract String description

Description of the underlying executalbe method.

Default:

""