ReferenceCounted (Atomix Utilities 0.25.4 API)

All Superinterfaces:

AutoCloseable
```
public interface ReferenceCounted<T>
extends AutoCloseable
```
Reference counting interface.
Types that implement ReferenceCounted can be counted for references and thus used to clean up resources once a given instance of an object is no longer in use.

Author:

Jordan Halterman

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`T`	`acquire()`	Acquires a reference.
`void`	`close()`	Defines an exception free close implementation.
`int`	`references()`	Returns the number of open references.
`boolean`	`release()`	Releases a reference.

- Method Detail
  - acquire
```
T acquire()
```
    Acquires a reference.
    
    Returns:
    
    The acquired reference.
  - release
```
boolean release()
```
    Releases a reference.
    
    Returns:
    
    Indicates whether all references to the object have been released.
  - references
```
int references()
```
    Returns the number of open references.
    
    Returns:
    
    The number of open references.
  - close
```
void close()
```
    Defines an exception free close implementation.
    
    Specified by:
    
    close in interface AutoCloseable