com.ten60.netkernel.container
Interface IComponent

All Superinterfaces:

IAspectBinaryStream, IURAspect, IURRepresentation

All Known Implementing Classes:

Cache, ComponentImpl, Config, Container, HouseKeeper, ModuleManager, Scheduler, TransportManager

public interface IComponent
extends IURRepresentation, IAspectBinaryStream

Interface for all NetKernel System Components, they are all IURRepresentations and implements IRepresentationBinaryStream.

Method Summary

void	doPeriodicHouseKeeping() perform some housekeeping work every house keeping period.
URIdentifier	getURI() return our URI
void	start(Container aContainer) starts the component
void	stop() stops the component

Methods inherited from interface com.ten60.netkernel.urii.IURRepresentation

getAspect, getAspects, getMeta, hasAspect

Methods inherited from interface com.ten60.netkernel.urii.aspect.IAspectBinaryStream

getEncoding, write

Method Detail

getURI

URIdentifier getURI()

return our URI

Returns:

our URI

doPeriodicHouseKeeping

void doPeriodicHouseKeeping()

perform some housekeeping work every house keeping period.

start

void start(Container aContainer)
           throws NetKernelException

starts the component

Parameters:

aContainer - the container we will execute inside

Throws:

NetKernelException - thrown if we encounter any error during startup

stop

void stop()
          throws NetKernelException

stops the component

Throws:

NetKernelException - thrown if we encounter any error during startup