rice.environment.time
Interface TimeSource

All Superinterfaces:

Destructable

All Known Implementing Classes:

DirectTimeSource, SimpleTimeSource

public interface TimeSource
extends Destructable

Virtualized clock for FreePastry. Can return the current time, or be blocked on. Usually acquired by calling environment.getTimeSource(). TODO: add wait(lock, timeout) that is the same a s lock.wait(timeout)

Author:

Jeff Hoye

Method Summary

long	currentTimeMillis()
void	sleep(long delay) block for this many millis

Methods inherited from interface rice.Destructable

destroy

Method Detail

currentTimeMillis

long currentTimeMillis()

Returns:

the current time in millis

sleep

void sleep(long delay)
           throws java.lang.InterruptedException

block for this many millis

Parameters:

delay - the amount of time to sleep

Throws:

java.lang.InterruptedException