Package jegg.timer

This package provides the implemenation for a timer that can be used to deliver timeout messages to a listener.

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Description

Interface Summary

TimeoutListener

A listener for timeout message sent by an jegg.timer.Timer instance.

Class Summary

Timeout	The message sent to a timeout listener when the timeout event has occurred..
Timer	A timer that can be used to periodically deliver timeout messages to a listener.

Package jegg.timer Description

This package provides the implemenation for a timer that can be used to deliver timeout messages to a listener. The timer package is used to implement egg timers in the Egg base class to allow eggs to place upper bounds on how long they wait for expected messages or to schedule reoccuring activities.

The Egg base class provides a two methods for creating a timer: Egg.createSingleShotTimer, and Egg.createRepeatingTimer.