nl.tudelft.simulation.yellowpage
Interface YellowPageInterface

All Known Implementing Classes:

YellowPage

public interface YellowPageInterface

A YellowPageInterface, which enables finding of actors based on a registry in which actors can register themselves.

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Version:

$$Revision: 1.2 $$ $$Date: 2005/04/08 10:56:36 $$

Author:

Peter Jacobs

Method Summary

ActorInterface[]	findActor(Category category) finds an actor based on the category
ActorInterface[]	findActor(java.lang.String regex) finds an actor based on the regex
ActorInterface[]	findActor(java.lang.String regex, Category category) finds an actor based on the regex
boolean	register(ActorInterface actor, Category category) registers an actor

Method Detail

findActor

public ActorInterface[] findActor(java.lang.String regex)
                           throws java.rmi.RemoteException

finds an actor based on the regex

Parameters:

regex - the name of the actor as regular expression

Returns:

ActorInterface[] the result

Throws:

java.rmi.RemoteException - on network failure

findActor

public ActorInterface[] findActor(java.lang.String regex,
                                  Category category)
                           throws java.rmi.RemoteException

finds an actor based on the regex

Parameters:

regex - the name of the actor as regular expression

category - the category for this actor

Returns:

ActorInterface[] the result

Throws:

java.rmi.RemoteException - on network failure

findActor

public ActorInterface[] findActor(Category category)
                           throws java.rmi.RemoteException

finds an actor based on the category

Parameters:

category - the category for this actor

Returns:

ActorInterface[] the result

Throws:

java.rmi.RemoteException - on network failure

register

public boolean register(ActorInterface actor,
                        Category category)
                 throws java.rmi.RemoteException

registers an actor

Parameters:

actor - the actor

category - the category

Returns:

succes

Throws:

java.rmi.RemoteException - on network failure