From f21a83ec3c7de8e32cc20ce4c34828d8a87a7bb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jonas=20Bon=C3=A9r?= <jonasremove@jonasboner.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:49:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] added effect to java api

---
 .../src/main/scala/akka/dataflow/DataFlowVariable.scala    | 6 +++---
 akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/japi/JavaAPI.scala          | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dataflow/DataFlowVariable.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dataflow/DataFlowVariable.scala
index 5b72503c43..9becd42e48 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dataflow/DataFlowVariable.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dataflow/DataFlowVariable.scala
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import akka.actor.{Actor, ActorRef}
 import akka.actor.Actor._
 import akka.dispatch.CompletableFuture
 import akka.AkkaException
-import akka.japi.{ Function, SideEffect }
+import akka.japi.{ Function, Effect }
 
 /**
  * Implements Oz-style dataflow (single assignment) variables.
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ object DataFlow {
    */
   def thread(body: => Unit): Unit = spawn(body)
 
-  /** Executes the supplied SideEffect in another thread
+  /** Executes the supplied Effect in another thread
    * JavaAPI
    */
-  def thread(body: SideEffect): Unit = spawn(body.apply)
+  def thread(body: Effect): Unit = spawn(body.apply)
 
   /** Executes the supplied function in another thread
    */
diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/japi/JavaAPI.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/japi/JavaAPI.scala
index 88732a4efc..4454ed117a 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/japi/JavaAPI.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/japi/JavaAPI.scala
@@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ trait SideEffect {
   def apply: Unit
 }
 
+/**
+ * An executable piece of code that takes no parameters and doesn't return any value.
+ */
+trait Effect {
+  def apply: Unit
+}
+
 /**
  + * A constructor/factory, takes no parameters but creates a new value of type T every call
  + */