edu.UCL.satin.arch.components
Class Deployer

java.lang.Object
  edu.UCL.satin.arch.components.Component
      edu.UCL.satin.arch.components.Reflective
          edu.UCL.satin.arch.components.Deployer

All Implemented Interfaces:

ComponentFacet, DeployerFacet, Facet

Direct Known Subclasses:

MiToolkitDeployer

public abstract class Deployer

extends Reflective

implements DeployerFacet

Represents a SATIN deployer

Author:

Stefanos Zachariadis

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class edu.UCL.satin.arch.components.Reflective

ACCEPT, FAIL, HANDLER_INSTANTIATION, PARTIAL_ACCEPT, REJECT

Fields inherited from class edu.UCL.satin.arch.components.Component

immutable, properties

Fields inherited from interface edu.UCL.satin.arch.facets.ComponentFacet

DISABLED, ENABLED

Constructor Summary

Deployer(java.lang.Object id)
Creates a new deployer with the given id

Method Summary

abstract short	acceptLMU(LMU lmu) Allows the Reflective component to inspect a given LMU and receive parts of it
abstract void	asyncSend(LMU lmu) Sends asynchronously the given LMU to a remote host.
abstract boolean	send(LMU lmu) Sends the given LMU to a remote host.

Methods inherited from class edu.UCL.satin.arch.components.Component

addAttribute, construct, destroy, getAttribute, getProperties, hasAttribute, isEnabled, match, setEnabled, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface edu.UCL.satin.arch.facets.DeployerFacet

addUbiquitousClass, addUbiquitousPackage

Methods inherited from interface edu.UCL.satin.arch.facets.ComponentFacet

addAttribute, construct, destroy, getAttribute, getProperties, hasAttribute, isEnabled, setEnabled

Constructor Detail

Deployer

public Deployer(java.lang.Object id)

Creates a new deployer with the given id

Parameters:

id - The id of the deployer

Method Detail

acceptLMU

public abstract short acceptLMU(LMU lmu)

Description copied from class: Reflective

Allows the Reflective component to inspect a given LMU and receive parts of it

Specified by:

acceptLMU in class Reflective

Parameters:

lmu - received which is targetted at this component

Returns:

true, if this component accepted all or parts of the lmu, false if the lmu was rejected

send

public abstract boolean send(LMU lmu)

Sends the given LMU to a remote host. The host is specified in the TARG attribute.

Specified by:

send in interface DeployerFacet

Parameters:

lmu - The LMU to be sent

Returns:

true if the operation was successful, false otherwise

asyncSend

public abstract void asyncSend(LMU lmu)

Sends asynchronously the given LMU to a remote host. The host is specified in the TARG attribute. Note that no callback mechanism is currently provided for this operation.

Specified by:

asyncSend in interface DeployerFacet

Parameters:

lmu - The lmu to be sent