package edu.northwestern.at.morphadorner.servers.standardizerserver;

/*	Please see the license information at the end of this file. */

import java.lang.*;
import java.lang.reflect.*;
import java.rmi.*;
import java.util.*;

import edu.northwestern.at.utils.*;

/**	Session remote object.
 */

public interface StandardizerServerSession extends Remote {

	/**	Ends the session.
	 *
	 *	@throws	RemoteException
	 */

	public void endSession ()
		throws RemoteException;

	/**	Tickles the session.
	 *
	 *	<p>Clients should tickle their sessions every 30 minutes. Sessions
	 *	which go untickled for 2 hours are considered to be dead and are
	 *	timed out and terminated.
	 *
	 *	@throws RemoteException
	 */

	public void tickle ()
		throws RemoteException;

	/**	Logs a message.
	 *
	 *	@param	level		Log message level.
	 *
	 *	@param	msg			Log message.
	 *
	 *	@throws RemoteException
	 */

	public void logMessage (int level, String msg)
		throws RemoteException;

	/**	Returns standard spellings given a spelling.
	 *
	 *	@param	spelling	The spelling.
	 *
	 *	@return				The standard spellings as an array of String.
	 */

	 public String[] standardizeSpelling( String spelling )
 		throws RemoteException;

	/**	Returns a standard spelling given a spelling and part of speech.
	 *
	 *	@param	spelling	The spelling.
	 *
	 *	@return				The standard spelling.
	 */

	 public String standardizeSpelling( String spelling , String pos )
 		throws RemoteException;

	 /** Returns number of alternate spellings.
	  *
	  *	@return		The number of alternate spellings.
	  */

	public int getNumberOfAlternateSpellings()
		throws RemoteException;

	 /** Returns number of alternate spellings by word class.
	  *
	  *	@return		The number of alternate spellings by word class.
	  */

	public int[] getNumberOfAlternateSpellingsByWordClass()
		throws RemoteException;

	 /** Returns number of standard spellings.
	  *
	  *	@return		The number of standard spellings.
	  */

	public int getNumberOfStandardSpellings()
		throws RemoteException;
}

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