net.gloin.resource
Interface ResourceHandle

All Known Implementing Classes:

ResourceHandleProxy

public interface ResourceHandle

Enables user services store to resources in a resource service. Only used by Jini services which need to use the resource service to support a codebase annotation.

Method Summary

void	fillResource(java.io.InputStream in) Send an input stream that may be used remotely in a resource service.
java.lang.String	getName() Obtain the name of the resource to which this object is a handle.
void	updateResource(java.io.InputStream in) Send an input stream that may be used remotely in a resource service.

Method Detail

getName

public java.lang.String getName()
                         throws java.io.IOException

Obtain the name of the resource to which this object is a handle.

Returns:

the name of the resource to which this object is a handle.

fillResource

public void fillResource(java.io.InputStream in)
                  throws java.io.IOException,
                         ResourceRegisteredException

Send an input stream that may be used remotely in a resource service. The resource service must read the bytes from the stream in order to fill the resource corresponding to this handle.

Parameters:

in - the input stream from which a resource service will read the bytes to fill the resource for this handle.

Throws:

ResourceRegisteredException - if the resource for this object is not empty when a request to fill is made.

updateResource

public void updateResource(java.io.InputStream in)
                    throws java.io.IOException

Send an input stream that may be used remotely in a resource service. The resource service must read the bytes from the stream in order to fill the resource corresponding to this handle.

Parameters:

in - the input stream from which a resource service will read the bytes to update the resource for this handle.