/*****************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2008 g-Eclipse Consortium
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Initial development of the original code was made for the
* g-Eclipse project founded by European Union
* project number: FP6-IST-034327 http://www.geclipse.eu/
*
* Contributors:
* Mathias Stuempert - initial API and implementation
*****************************************************************************/
package eu.geclipse.core.model;
import java.net.URI;
import eu.geclipse.core.model.impl.GenericGridInstallParameters;
/**
* The <code>IGridInstallParameters</code> holds all necessary information to
* install an application on the Grid. Middleware-specific implementations may
* extend {@link GenericGridInstallParameters}.
*/
public interface IGridInstallParameters {
/**
* Get the sources for the installation. This array holds a list of
* {@link URI}s pointing to files that are intended to be installed.
* The type of these files depends on the middleware-specific
* requirements of the application installation process.
*
* @return The sources of the application installation, i.e. the
* files that should be installed or that are needed for a
* installation.
*/
public URI[] getSources();
/**
* Get the targets of the installation, i.e. the computings where
* the sources should be installed to.
*
* @return The installation's targets.
*/
public IGridComputing[] getTargets();
/**
* Get a tag that is used to refer to this installation afterwards.
* This may not be used by the underlying installation process.
*
* @return The installation's software tag.
*/
public String getTag();
}