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+/*
+  File: BoundedChannel.java
+
+  Originally written by Doug Lea and released into the public domain.
+  This may be used for any purposes whatsoever without acknowledgment.
+  Thanks for the assistance and support of Sun Microsystems Labs,
+  and everyone contributing, testing, and using this code.
+
+  History:
+  Date       Who                What
+  11Jun1998  dl               Create public version
+*/
+
+
+package EDU.oswego.cs.dl.util.concurrent;
+
+/**
+ * A channel that is known to have a capacity, signifying
+ * that <code>put</code> operations may block when the
+ * capacity is reached. Various implementations may have
+ * intrinsically hard-wired capacities, capacities that are fixed upon
+ * construction, or dynamically adjustable capacities.
+ * @see DefaultChannelCapacity
+ * <p>[<a href="http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/classes/EDU/oswego/cs/dl/util/concurrent/intro.html"> Introduction to this package. </a>] <p>
+ **/
+
+public interface BoundedChannel extends Channel {
+  /** 
+   * Return the maximum number of elements that can be held.
+   * @return the capacity of this channel.
+   **/
+  public int capacity();
+}