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027    package com.unboundid.directory.sdk.common.api;
028    
029    
030    
031    import com.unboundid.directory.sdk.broker.internal.IdentityBrokerExtension;
032    import com.unboundid.directory.sdk.ds.internal.DirectoryServerExtension;
033    import com.unboundid.directory.sdk.metrics.internal.MetricsEngineExtension;
034    import com.unboundid.directory.sdk.proxy.internal.DirectoryProxyServerExtension;
035    import com.unboundid.directory.sdk.sync.internal.SynchronizationServerExtension;
036    import com.unboundid.ldap.sdk.LDAPException;
037    import com.unboundid.util.Extensible;
038    import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafety;
039    import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafetyLevel;
040    
041    
042    
043    /**
044     * This interface defines a set of methods that may be implemented by a thread
045     * which should be run in the server.  If an extension needs to create one or
046     * more threads, then those threads should implement this interface and they
047     * should be created using the
048     * {@link com.unboundid.directory.sdk.common.types.ServerContext#createThread}
049     * method.
050     */
051    @Extensible()
052    @DirectoryServerExtension()
053    @DirectoryProxyServerExtension(appliesToLocalContent=true,
054         appliesToRemoteContent=false)
055    @SynchronizationServerExtension(appliesToLocalContent=true,
056         appliesToSynchronizedContent=false)
057    @MetricsEngineExtension()
058    @IdentityBrokerExtension()
059    @ThreadSafety(level=ThreadSafetyLevel.INTERFACE_NOT_THREADSAFE)
060    public interface ServerThread
061    {
062      /**
063       * Performs the actual processing for this thread.  When this method returns,
064       * the thread will stop running.
065       *
066       * @throws  LDAPException  If the thread does not complete successfully.
067       */
068      void runThread()
069           throws LDAPException;
070    }