Distributor.java

package at.ac.ait.archistar.engine.distributor;

import java.util.Set;

import at.ac.ait.archistar.backendserver.fragments.Fragment;

/**
 * Distributor is responsible of directing the different operations to the
 * different servers. Possible solutions range from simple linear sequential
 * distributions to BFT algorithms
 *
 * Operations always perform on sets (as we seldomly want to access just a
 * single fragment on one server)
 *
 * @author andy
 */
public interface Distributor {

    boolean putFragmentSet(Set<Fragment> fragments);

    public boolean getFragmentSet(Set<Fragment> fragments);

    int connectServers();

    int disconnectServers();
}