01: /*
02: * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
03: * contributor license agreements. The ASF licenses this file to You
04: * under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
05: * use this file except in compliance with the License.
06: * You may obtain a copy of the License at
07: *
08: * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
09: *
10: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11: * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12: * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13: * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14: * limitations under the License. For additional information regarding
15: * copyright in this work, please see the NOTICE file in the top level
16: * directory of this distribution.
17: */
18: /*
19: * Job.java
20: *
21: * Created on December 16, 2005, 6:14 PM
22: */
23:
24: package org.apache.roller.business.runnable;
25:
26: import java.util.Map;
27:
28: /**
29: * A job to be executed.
30: *
31: * @author Allen Gilliland
32: */
33: public interface Job {
34:
35: /**
36: * Execute the job.
37: */
38: public void execute();
39:
40: /**
41: * Pass in input to be used for the job.
42: */
43: public void input(Map input);
44:
45: /**
46: * Get any output from the job.
47: */
48: public Map output();
49:
50: }
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