org.jcsp.net
Interface NetChannelOutput

All Superinterfaces:

ChannelOutput, Networked, Poisonable

All Known Subinterfaces:

MigratableChannelOutput, NetSharedChannelOutput

public interface NetChannelOutput
extends ChannelOutput, Networked

An interface that should be implemented by ChannelOutput objects which are used for transmitting over the network.

As well as usefully combining the Networked and ChannelOutput interfaces, this interface adds a recreate() that requests the implementing class should reinitialize itself.

Author:

Quickstone Technologies Limited

Method Summary

void	destroyWriter() Destroys the channel writer end and frees all the underlying JCSP.NET resources.
Class	getFactoryClass() Returns the factory class used for constructing this channel end object.
void	recreate() Requests that the instance of the implementing class should reinitialize itself.
void	recreate(NetChannelLocation newLoc) Requests that the instance of the implementing class should reinitialize itself with a new location.

Methods inherited from interface org.jcsp.lang.ChannelOutput

write

Methods inherited from interface org.jcsp.lang.Poisonable

poison

Methods inherited from interface org.jcsp.net.Networked

getChannelLocation

Method Detail

recreate

void recreate()

Requests that the instance of the implementing class should reinitialize itself.

recreate

void recreate(NetChannelLocation newLoc)

Requests that the instance of the implementing class should reinitialize itself with a new location.

Parameters:

newLoc - the new location.

destroyWriter

void destroyWriter()

Destroys the channel writer end and frees all the underlying JCSP.NET resources.

getFactoryClass

Class getFactoryClass()

Returns the factory class used for constructing this channel end object.

Returns:

the Class of the