electric.registry
Interface IRegistry

All Known Implementing Classes:

ClusterRegistry, CompoundRegistry, CrossApplicationRegistry, DirectoryRegistry, LocalRegistry, SOAPRegistry

public interface IRegistry

IRegistry is the interface that must be implemented by all registries. It provides methods for publishing, unpublishing and binding.

Author:

webMethods

Method Summary

IReference	bind(java.lang.String path, java.lang.Class[] interfaces, Context context) Return a reference to the service described by the path.
boolean	publish(java.lang.String path, java.lang.Object object, Context context) Publish the object to the specified path.
boolean	unpublish(java.lang.String path) Unpublish the object from the specified path.

Method Detail

publish

public boolean publish(java.lang.String path,
                       java.lang.Object object,
                       Context context)
                throws RegistryException

Publish the object to the specified path. If this registry cannot process paths of the specified form, immediately return false.

Parameters:

path - The path.

object - The object.

context - The context.

Returns:

True if the object was published.

Throws:

RegistryException

unpublish

public boolean unpublish(java.lang.String path)
                  throws RegistryException

Unpublish the object from the specified path. If this registry cannot process paths of the specified form, immediately return false.

Parameters:

path - The path.

Returns:

True if the object was unpublished.

Throws:

RegistryException

bind

public IReference bind(java.lang.String path,
                       java.lang.Class[] interfaces,
                       Context context)
                throws RegistryException

Return a reference to the service described by the path. If this registry cannot process paths of the specified form, immediately return null.

Parameters:

path - The path.

interfaces - The interfaces

context - The context.

Returns:

A reference to the service.

Throws:

RegistryException