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Interface Registry

public interface Registry

The Registry Interface is the main interface of the Registry Service. It contains three methods: publishService, removeService and query.

Method Summary

void	publishService(ServiceDescription service) Publishes an Application Services in the Registry Service based on the given ServiceDescription.
java.util.Vector	query(Attribute[] attribute) Queries the Registry Service and returns a Vector of ServiceDescription that meet certain criteria(attribute).
void	removeService(java.lang.String serviceURI) Removes an Application Service from the Registry Service.

Method Detail

query

public java.util.Vector query(Attribute[] attribute)
                       throws java.rmi.RemoteException

Queries the Registry Service and returns a Vector of ServiceDescription that meet certain criteria(attribute).

Parameters:

attribute - array of service descriptions in a form of one or more Name/Value pairs

Throws:

java.rmi.RemoteException - if an error occured during the query of the service

See Also:

Attribute

publishService

public void publishService(ServiceDescription service)
                    throws java.rmi.RemoteException

Publishes an Application Services in the Registry Service based on the given ServiceDescription.

Parameters:

service - object that is used for description of existing service description

Throws:

java.rmi.RemoteException - if an error occured during the publishing of the service

See Also:

ServiceDescription

removeService

public void removeService(java.lang.String serviceURI)
                   throws java.rmi.RemoteException

Removes an Application Service from the Registry Service.

Parameters:

serviceURI - URI of the service that will be remove(unregister) from registry

Throws:

java.rmi.RemoteException - if an error occured during the removing of the service description