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package org.jboss.jmx.adaptor.snmp.agent;

/** 
 * Simple, thread safe counter implementattion with accessor methods.
 *
 * (Maybe replace with EDU.oswego.cs.dl.util.concurrent.SynchronizedLong?)
 *
 * @version $Revision: 44604 $
 *
 * @author  <a href="mailto:spol@intracom.gr">Spyros Pollatos</a>
 * @author  <a href="mailto:dimitris@jboss.org">Dimitris Andreadis</a>
 */
public final class Counter
{
   /** the internal counter */
   private long count;
   
   /**
    * CTOR - initialises the counter to the provided value.
    *
    * @param countStart the starting counter value
    */        
   public Counter(long countStart)
   {
      this.count = countStart;
   }
     
   /**
    * Returns the current value (i.e. the next to be used).
    */                 
   public synchronized long peek()
   {
      return this.count;
   }
     
   /**
    * Returns the current value (i.e. the next to be used) and advances
    * the counter by one.
    */                 
   public synchronized long advance()
   {
      return this.count++;
   }
        
} // class Counter
