jgroup.core
Interface ExternalGMIService

All Superinterfaces:

Layer

All Known Implementing Classes:

JeriEGMILayer

public interface ExternalGMIService
extends Layer

This interface is used to obtain the identifier of the current EGMI invocation and to get a registry entry and bootstrap handler for the dependable registry.

Since:

Jgroup 0.8

Author:

Alberto Montresor, Hein Meling

Nested Class Summary

static interface

ExternalGMIService.BootstrapInvocationHandler This interface must be implemented by all EGMI services that can be used by the bootstrap mechanism.

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface jgroup.core.Layer

Layer.FinalizeLayer

Method Summary

ExternalGMIService.BootstrapInvocationHandler	getBootstrapHandler() Returns an BootstrapInvocationHandler that can be bound to a normal Java RMI registry instance and later merged with others.
IID	getIdentifier() Returns the invocation identifier for the current external group method invocation.
java.rmi.Remote	getProxy(java.rmi.Remote impl) Returns a proxy exported with the BasicJeriExporter.
DependableRegistry.RegistryEntry	getRegistryEntry(java.lang.String serviceName) Returns the registry entry type required for this implementation of the external GMI service.

Methods inherited from interface jgroup.core.Layer

addListener

Method Detail

getIdentifier

IID getIdentifier()

Returns the invocation identifier for the current external group method invocation.

getRegistryEntry

DependableRegistry.RegistryEntry getRegistryEntry(java.lang.String serviceName)
                                                  throws JgroupException

Returns the registry entry type required for this implementation of the external GMI service.

Throws:

JgroupException

getBootstrapHandler

ExternalGMIService.BootstrapInvocationHandler getBootstrapHandler()
                                                                  throws JgroupException

Returns an BootstrapInvocationHandler that can be bound to a normal Java RMI registry instance and later merged with others.

Throws:

JgroupException

getProxy

java.rmi.Remote getProxy(java.rmi.Remote impl)
                         throws java.rmi.server.ExportException

Returns a proxy exported with the BasicJeriExporter.

Parameters:

impl - the remote object to be exported

Returns:

the exported proxy

Throws:

JgroupException - if the object could not be exported

java.rmi.server.ExportException