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Fibers, Channels and Actors for the JVM

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/*
 * Quasar: lightweight threads and actors for the JVM.
 * Copyright (C) 2013, Parallel Universe Software Co. All rights reserved.
 * 
 * This program and the accompanying materials are dual-licensed under
 * either the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 as published by
 * the Eclipse Foundation
 *  
 *   or (per the licensee's choosing)
 *  
 * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3.0
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 */
package co.paralleluniverse.actors;

import co.paralleluniverse.fibers.SuspendExecution;

/**
 *
 * @author pron
 */
public abstract class ActorRef {
    public abstract String getName();

    public abstract void send(Message message) throws SuspendExecution;

    public abstract void sendSync(Message message) throws SuspendExecution;

    public abstract void interrupt();
    
    public static , M> T self() {
        final Actor a = Actor.currentActor();
        if (a == null)
            return null;
        return (T) a.ref();
    }
}