com.uwyn.rife.rep
Interface Participant

All Known Implementing Classes:

BlockingParticipant, ParticipantConfig, ParticipantCursors, ParticipantDatasources, ParticipantImages, ParticipantMemoryScheduler, ParticipantMemoryUsers, ParticipantSite, ParticipantSpringWeb, SingleObjectParticipant

public interface Participant

A Participant is basically a service that needs to be initialized before it can return objects that correspond to specified identification keys.

Since:

1.0

Version:

$Revision: 3634 $

Author:

Geert Bevin (gbevin[remove] at uwyn dot com)

See Also:

Rep

Method Summary

Object	getObject() Returns the default object for this participant.
Object	getObject(Object key) Retrieves the object from the participant that corresponds to a particular key.
boolean	isFinished() Checks if the initialization of this participant is finished.

Method Detail

getObject

Object getObject()

Returns the default object for this participant.

Returns:

an Object instance containing the default object; or

null if no default object exists

Since:

1.0

getObject

Object getObject(Object key)

Retrieves the object from the participant that corresponds to a particular key.

Parameters:

key - An Object instance that used as the key to look up a corresponding object from the participant.

Returns:

the requested Object instance; or

null if no object could be found that corresponds to the provided key

Since:

1.0

isFinished

boolean isFinished()

Checks if the initialization of this participant is finished.

Returns:

true if the initialization is finished; or

false if the initialization is in progress

Since:

1.0