org.xjava.work

[Tumaini]

I've been trying to implement the classes in org.xjava.work in commonj/jcommon and normal runnable work is fine with RunnableWorkUnit, but work that needs to return an object has proved tougher. I thought perhaps DelegateWorkUnit would do it, but I can't seem to find where to get a return value.
How would one go about this?

Thank you very much for some very useful classes!
EDIT: I'm using the xjava-src that I found somewhere on these forums.

[darkfrog]

You can download the latest code for xjava from http://xjava.googlecode.com in the SVN repository.

Though it might be a good idea to add the functionality to have return values be used in WorkUnits, by default there is no return value expected from them. If you need something returned the unit itself should call off to set it, and if you want to wait for the work to complete or check on its status you can get the return from addWork that is a Future to let you know when it's finished.

Most of the intent behind ThreadManager is to handle asynchronous tasks that have no necessary response of their own but simply need to do something.  This is sort of like the SwingUtilities.invokeLater concept.

[darkfrog]

Your post made me realize that there wasn't a forum for xjava, so I've added it.

[Tumaini]

Alright, I'll let the Runnable set a variable instead, that works well.
Thank you for the svn address!