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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2005
Igor D. Kushnirskiy, Ithaca, NY (US);
Igor D. Kushnirskiy, Ithaca, NY (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for transferring a method call from an invoke thread to an event dispatch thread. The invoke thread and the event dispatch thread may execute independent of one another and the event dispatch thread may have an associated queue. The method may include defining a new call on the invoke thread. The new call may include identification of a method, identification of an object, one or more arguments, and a coalescing indicator indicating a type of coalescing for the call. The method may further include sending, during execution of the invoke thread, the new call to the queue, one or more previous calls being stored in the queue, and coalescing the new call with one of the previous calls in the queue according to the type of coalescing indicated by the coalescing indicator.