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RFC 2445 defines protocols for interoperability between calendar applications, and this library provides java implementations for a number of RFC 2445 primitives including those that describe how events repeat. Start by taking alook at the compat packages.
// Copyright (C) 2006 Google Inc.
//
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package org.jresearch.ical.iter;
/**
* A generator that may stop generating values after some point, if e.g. it's
* output is never productive. This is used to stop rules like
*
* RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=2;BYMONTHDAY=30
*
* from hanging an iterator.
* If a rule does prove productive though, it can be alerted to the fact by
* the {@link #workDone} method, so that any throttle can be reset.
*
*
* @author [email protected] (Mike Samuel)
*/
abstract class ThrottledGenerator extends Generator {
/**
* called to reset any throttle after work is done. This must be called in
* the outermost loop of any iterator.
*/
abstract void workDone();
}