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A library of tools to assist with safe concurrent java development. Providing a unique priority based thread pool, and ways to distrbute threaded work.

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package org.threadly.concurrent;

import java.util.concurrent.Callable;

/**
 * Interface to implement if any classes are containing a callable.  This interface must be 
 * implemented in order for the {@link PriorityScheduler} (and others) remove function to work 
 * correctly if that wrapper is ever provided to the thread pool.
 * 
 * @author jent - Mike Jensen
 * @since 4.3.0 (since 1.0.0 as CallableContainerInterface)
 * @param  Type for type of callable contained
 */
public interface CallableContainer {
  /**
   * Call to get the contained callable held within the wrapper.
   * 
   * @return callable contained within wrapper, or {@code null} if none is contained
   */
  public Callable getContainedCallable();
}