package agg.attribute;
import java.io.Serializable;
/**
* Mediator interface for distribution purposes. Provides services for creating
* and maintaining of interface/local-relations between attribute tuples and
* contexts.
*
* @version $Id: AttrDistributionBroker.java,v 1.1 2005/08/25 11:56:55 enrico
* Exp $
* @author $Author: olga $
*/
public interface AttrDistributionBroker extends Serializable {
static final long serialVersionUID = 8823872469661905068L;
/** Makes a type tuple into an interface of another type tuple. */
public void connect(AttrType interfaceType, AttrType localType);
/** Ends a type tuple's role as an interface of another type tuple. */
public void disconnect(AttrType interfaceType, AttrType localType);
/** Makes an instance tuple into an interface of another interface tuple. */
public void connect(AttrInstance interfaceInstance,
AttrInstance localInstance);
/** Ends an instance tuple's role as an interface of another interface tuple. */
public void disconnect(AttrInstance interfaceInstance,
AttrInstance localInstance);
/** Makes a context into an interface of another context. */
public void connect(AttrContext interfaceContext, AttrContext localContext);
/** Ends a context's role as an interface of another context. */
public void disconnect(AttrContext interfaceContext,
AttrContext localContext);
}
/*
* $Log: AttrDistributionBroker.java,v $
* Revision 1.2 2007/09/10 13:05:31 olga
* In this update:
* - package xerces2.5.0 is not used anymore;
* - class com.objectspace.jgl.Pair is replaced by the agg own generic class agg.util.Pair;
* - bugs fixed in: usage of PACs in rules; match completion;
* usage of static method calls in attr. conditions
* - graph editing: added some new features
* Revision 1.1 2005/08/25 11:56:55 enrico
* *** empty log message ***
*
* Revision 1.1 2005/05/30 12:58:03 olga Version with Eclipse
*
* Revision 1.2 2002/09/23 12:23:45 komm added type graph in xt_basis, editor
* and GUI
*
* Revision 1.1.1.1 2002/07/11 12:16:55 olga Imported sources
*
* Revision 1.3 2000/04/05 12:06:43 shultzke serialVersionUID aus V1.0.0
* generiert
*
*/