nl.tudelft.simulation.messaging.queues
Interface MessageQueueInterface

All Superinterfaces:

java.io.Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

MessageQueue

public interface MessageQueueInterface

extends java.io.Serializable

The MessageQueueInterface gives the possibility to store and retrieve messages, according to different types of sorting mechanisms. Examples are FIFO and LIFO mechanisms. Copyright (c) 2003-2005 Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft, the Netherlands. All rights reserved. See for project information www.simulation.tudelft.nl . The source code and binary code of this software is proprietary information of Delft University of Technology.

Version:

$$Revision: 1.2 $$ $$Date: 2005/04/08 10:56:35 $$

Author:

Peter Jacobs , Stijn-Pieter van Houten , Alexander Verbraeck

Method Summary

void	add(Message message)
Message	first()
boolean	isEmpty()
void	remove(Message message)
Message	removeFirst()
int	size()

Method Detail

add

public void add(Message message)

Parameters:

message - new message to add

remove

public void remove(Message message)

Parameters:

message - message to remove

first

public Message first()

Returns:

the first message according to the sorting mechanism

removeFirst

public Message removeFirst()

Returns:

the first message removed according to the sorting mechanism

size

public int size()

Returns:

the number of messages in the queue

isEmpty

public boolean isEmpty()

Returns:

whether the queue is empty or not