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package javax.management.j2ee.statistics;
/**
* The Stats model and its submodels specify performance data attributes for each of the specific managed object types.
*
* @author thomas.diesler@jboss.org
*/
public interface Stats
{
/**
* Get a Statistic by name.
*/
public Statistic getStatistic(String statisticName);
/**
* Returns an array of Strings which are the names of the attributes from the specific Stats submodel that this object supports.
* Attributes named in the list must correspond to attributes that will return a Statistic object of the appropriate type
* which contains valid performance data. The return value of attributes in the Stats submodel that are not included in
* the statisticNames list must be null. For each name in the statisticNames list there must be one Statistic with the
* same name in the statistics list.
*/
public String[] getStatisticNames();
/**
* Returns an array containing all of the Statistic objects supported by this Stats object.
*/
public Statistic[] getStatistics();
}