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// $Id$

package scala.actors

import java.util.concurrent.{ExecutorService, RejectedExecutionException}

/**
 * The <code>ExecutorScheduler</code> class uses an
 * <code>ExecutorService</code> to execute <code>Actor</code>s.
 *
 * @author Philipp Haller
 */
class ExecutorScheduler(protected var executor: ExecutorService) extends SchedulerService {

  /* This constructor (and the var above) is currently only used to work
   * around a bug in scaladoc, which cannot deal with early initializers
   * (to be used in subclasses such as DefaultExecutorScheduler) properly.
   */
  def this() {
    this(null)
  }

  /** Submits a <code>Runnable</code> for execution.
   *
   *  @param  task  the task to be executed
   */
  def execute(task: Runnable) {
    try {
      executor execute task
    } catch {
      case ree: RejectedExecutionException =>
        // run task on current thread
        task.run()
    }
  }

  def executeFromActor(task: Runnable) =
    execute(task)

  /** This method is called when the <code>SchedulerService</code>
   *  shuts down.
   */
  def onShutdown(): Unit =
    executor.shutdown()

  def isActive =
    (executor ne null) && !executor.isShutdown
}