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GATE - general achitecture for text engineering - is open source software capable of solving almost any text processing problem. This artifact enables you to embed the core GATE Embedded with its essential dependencies. You will able to use the GATE Embedded API and load and store GATE XML documents. This artifact is the perfect dependency for CREOLE plugins or for applications that need to customize the GATE dependencies due to confict with their own dependencies or for lower footprint.

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/*
 *  Copyright (c) 1995-2012, The University of Sheffield. See the file
 *  COPYRIGHT.txt in the software or at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/COPYRIGHT.txt
 *
 *  This file is part of GATE (see http://gate.ac.uk/), and is free
 *  software, licenced under the GNU Library General Public License,
 *  Version 2, June 1991 (in the distribution as file licence.html,
 *  and also available at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/licence.html).
 *
 *  Atanas Kiryakov, 01/02/2002
 *
 *  $Id: ObjectPool.java 17600 2014-03-08 18:47:11Z markagreenwood $
 */
package gate.util;


import java.util.Vector;

/**
   A generic implementation of pool of references to objects of any kind.
   It is thread-safe, so, allows multiple users to get and release objects
   "simultaneously". In fact, the standard Java synchronization is used.
   

The base idea is that, a calling routine will try to get an object from the pool with method Get. On success, it will use the object and return it in the pool with the method Put.

If there ares no available objects in the pool, Get will return null. Then the calling routine should create a new object. Further, scenario goes in the same way - when finished using the object, calling routine shoud Put it in the pool for future use, instead of leaving it to be garbage-collected.

The pool initially is empty. The only way to increase the number of objects managed by the pool, is some external process to Put an object, that was created, instead of previously Get from the pool.

Pool stores only references to currently "free" or available objects. When some external routine Gets an object from the pool, its reference is not locked, it is simply removed from the pool. */ public class ObjectPool { private Vector objects; private int size; /** Constructs and object pool with specified size. @param size determines the maximum size of the pool. This is the number free objects that it can manage at the same time */ public ObjectPool(int size) { this.size = size; objects = new Vector(this.size); } // ObjectPool /** Pulls out an object from the pool. The reference to the object is removed from the pool and their is no longer any kind of relation between this object and the pool. It can be returned back (released) by Put method. @return an object from the pool, if available.
Otherwise, returns null */ public synchronized Object get(){ int n = objects.size(); if (n > 0){ Object o = objects.elementAt(n-1); objects.removeElementAt(n-1); return o; } else return null; } // Get /** Puts an object in the pool, those stating that it's "free" or available for use by another processes and routines. An object can be put in the pool, without need to be get from there before. @return true on success
false when the object was not put in the pool, because the maximal number of references in the pool was riched */ public synchronized boolean put(Object o){ if (objects.size() > 30) return false; objects.addElement(o); return true; } // Put }