How to queue and call actual methods (rather than immediately eval) in java?

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Published on 2010-06-10T23:08:33Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 23:12 UTC
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There are a list of tasks that are time sensitive (but "time" in this case is arbitrary to what another program tells me - it's more like "ticks" rather than time). However, I do NOT want said methods to evaluate immediately. I want one to execute after the other finished. I'm using a linked list for my queue, but I'm not really sure how/if I can access the actual methods in a class without evaluating them immediate.

The code would look something like...

LinkedList<Method> l = new LinkedList<Method>();
l.add( this.move(4) );
l.add( this.read() );
l.removeFirst().call();
//wait 80 ticks
l.removeFirst().call();

move(4) would execute immediately, then 80 ticks later, I would remove it from the list and call this.read() which would then be executed.

I'm assuming this has to do with the reflection classes, and I've poked around a bit, but I can't seem to get anything to work, or do what I want. If only I could use pointers...

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