net.gloin.resource
Interface ResourceAccess
- All Known Implementing Classes:
- ResourceAccessProxy
- public interface ResourceAccess
Provides access to read resources stored in a particular resource
service. When a JRAP URL is created, the handler parses the URL to
determine the components of the URL. When a connection to the URL
is opened, the components of the URL are used to build a Jini
Lookup Service template. The types in the template are always the
following array: new Class[] {ResourceAccess.class}.
The lookup template will always find services which implement the
ResourceAccess interface. The JRAP handler, looks up
resource access services which match the URL template. Once a
client has downloaded a ResourceAccess proxy, the
client can download any byte streams stored in the associated
resource service. The handler delegates to downloaded resource
access proxies in order to load resources for the given URL.
The JRAP URL protocol handler contains no concrete implementation
of ResourceAccess. The implementation must be
downloaded as part of the smart proxy of a discovered resource
access service. As a result, ResourceAccess enables a
layer of abstraction in the JRAP URL protocol handler which can
uses flexible algorithms to obtain networked resources. Downloaded
proxy classes can incorporate custom fail-over or automatic
distribution algorithms, vendor specific download interfaces, etc.
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Method Summary |
java.io.InputStream |
getResourceAsStream(java.lang.String name)
Obtain an input stream for the resource with name,
name. |
getResourceAsStream
public java.io.InputStream getResourceAsStream(java.lang.String name)
throws java.io.IOException
- Obtain an input stream for the resource with name,
name. name may be a '/' separated
path of strings. This method is intended to operate as an
analog to URLClassLoader.getResourceAsStream()
- Parameters:
name - the name of the resource for which an inputstream
will be returned.- Returns:
- an input stream for the resource with name,
name.