Package nl.talsmasoftware.context

The core concepts of the context-propagation library.

Context:

Defines a context as something with a value that can be closed.

ContextManager:

Interface defining required operations to manage contexts: creating new contexts and obtaining 'current' contexts.

ContextSnapshot:

A snapshot of one or more active contexts that can be reactivated temporarily (until closed).

ContextManagers:

Contains a static method to create a new snapshot from registered ContextManager implementations.

Author:

Sjoerd Talsma

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
Context<T>	A context can be anything that needs to be maintained on the 'current thread' level.
ContextManager<T>	This interface defines the contract for a ContextManager Service.
ContextSnapshot	Interface for a 'snapshot' that can capture the (then-) 'active context' from all known registered ContextManager implementations. Obtain a new snapshot by calling ContextManagers.createContextSnapshot() which will include a snapshot for all supported Context types through their respective managers.

Class Summary

Class	Description
ContextManagers	Utility class to allow concurrent systems to take snapshots of all contexts from known ContextManager implementations.