jrun.jms.core
Interface Disposable

All Known Implementing Classes:

MessageImpl

public interface Disposable

Disposable objects can be made available forgarbage collection. These types of objects are usually housed by a Container and the Container is usually GarbageCollectable. The GarbageCollector is responsible for scheduling garbage collection activity.

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2001/05/24 16:39:40 $

Author:

Jim Alateras

Method Summary

boolean	canDispose() Check whether we can dispose of this object.
void	dispose() Unconditionally dispose of this object or do whatever you can to make it available for garbage collection
boolean	tryDisposing() Check to see if this object can be disposed.

Method Detail

tryDisposing

public boolean tryDisposing()

Check to see if this object can be disposed. If so do whatever you can to make it available for garbage collection.

Returns:

boolean - true if object was disposed

canDispose

public boolean canDispose()

Check whether we can dispose of this object. This does not actually have any side effects. Note that the dispose() method does a check before disposing of the object

Returns:

boolean - true if we can dispose of it

dispose

public void dispose()

Unconditionally dispose of this object or do whatever you can to make it available for garbage collection