com.ibm.itim.scheduling
Interface Schedulable

All Superinterfaces:

java.io.Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

RecurringTimeSchedule

public interface Schedulable
extends java.io.Serializable

Schedulable is an interface to provide the schedule entries in the Scheduler. The implementing class of the interface must provide the next date to schedule (if any) when prompted by the schedule method call.

Method Summary

long	schedule(long time) Returns the next scheduled date in milliseconds since the epoch, or 0 if there will be no more dates to be scheduled.

Method Detail

schedule

long schedule(long time)

Returns the next scheduled date in milliseconds since the epoch, or 0 if there will be no more dates to be scheduled.

Parameters:

time - the current time in milliseconds since the epoch

Returns:

the scheduled date in milliseconds since the epoch, or 0 if there are no more dates to be scheduled.