nl.tudelft.simulation.yellowpage
Class Category

java.lang.Object
  nl.tudelft.simulation.yellowpage.Category

public class Category

extends java.lang.Object

A Category to be used in storing and finding 'topics' in the YellowPage.

Copyright (c) 2003-2005 Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft, the Netherlands. All rights reserved. See for project information www.simulation.tudelft.nl . The source code and binary code of this software is proprietary information of Delft University of Technology.

Version:

$$Revision: 1.3 $$ $$Date: 2005/04/08 11:29:13 $$

Author:

Peter Jacobs

Constructor Summary

Category(java.lang.String description)
constructs a new Category

Method Summary

Category	getParent() returns the parent of this category
static boolean	specializationOf(Category cat1, Category cat2) determines whether cat1 is a specialization of cat2
java.lang.String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Category

public Category(java.lang.String description)

constructs a new Category

Parameters:

description - the description of the category

Method Detail

getParent

public Category getParent()

returns the parent of this category

Returns:

Category the parent

specializationOf

public static boolean specializationOf(Category cat1,
                                       Category cat2)

determines whether cat1 is a specialization of cat2

Parameters:

cat1 - the first category

cat2 - the second category

Returns:

boolean succes

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

See Also:

Object.toString()