jconch.pipeline
Interface PipeElement

All Known Implementing Classes:

BoundedPipeLink, ClosureConsumer, CollectionConsumer, CollectionProducer, Consumer, FactoryProducer, PipeLink, PipeStage, Processor, Producer, TransformerProcessor, TypeSafePipeLink, UnboundedPipeLink

public interface PipeElement

An element in a pipeline.

Author:

Robert

Method Summary

void	start() Signals to the element that it should now be fully ready to handle items.

Method Detail

start

void start()

Signals to the element that it should now be fully ready to handle items. If there is any reason why the element cannot process items, it should throw an exception when this is called.

This method should be safe to be called multiple times, possibly from different threads.