edu.UCL.satin.arch.components.container
Class Registrar

java.lang.Object
  edu.UCL.satin.arch.components.Component
      edu.UCL.satin.arch.components.container.Registrar

All Implemented Interfaces:

ComponentFacet, Facet, RegistrarFacet

Direct Known Subclasses:

CoreRegistrar

public abstract class Registrar

extends Component

implements RegistrarFacet

Represents a registration technique of the container

Author:

Stefanos Zachariadis

Field Summary

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

Registrar(java.lang.Object id)

Method Summary

abstract boolean	registerComponent(Component c) Adds a new component to the container.
abstract java.lang.String	removeComponent(Component c) Removes a component from the container

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.ComponentFacet

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

Constructor Detail

Registrar

public Registrar(java.lang.Object id)

Parameters:

id - the Registrar Component's Identifier

Method Detail

registerComponent

public abstract boolean registerComponent(Component c)

Adds a new component to the container.

Specified by:

registerComponent in interface RegistrarFacet

Parameters:

c - The component to add

Returns:

true if the operation was successful or false otherwise (component with the same id and version number exist/failure/etc.)

removeComponent

public abstract java.lang.String removeComponent(Component c)

Removes a component from the container

Specified by:

removeComponent in interface RegistrarFacet

Parameters:

c - The component to remove

Returns:

null if the operation was successful or the ID of the component that depends on c