org.apache.avalon.excalibur.container
Interface Container

All Superinterfaces:

org.apache.avalon.framework.component.Component

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractContainer

public interface Container

extends org.apache.avalon.framework.component.Component

This contains it during execution and may provide certain facilities (like a thread per EJB etc).

Author:

Peter Donald

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

ROLE

Method Summary

void	add(java.lang.String name, Entry entry) Add a component instance to container.
Entry	getEntry(java.lang.String name) Retrieve Entry from container
java.lang.String[]	list() List all names of entries in container.
void	remove(java.lang.String name) Remove a component instance from container.

Field Detail

ROLE

public static final java.lang.String ROLE

Method Detail

add

public void add(java.lang.String name,
                Entry entry)
         throws ContainerException

Add a component instance to container.

Parameters:

entry - the component entry

remove

public void remove(java.lang.String name)
            throws ContainerException

Remove a component instance from container.

Parameters:

name - the name of component

getEntry

public Entry getEntry(java.lang.String name)
               throws ContainerException

Retrieve Entry from container

Parameters:

name - the name of entry

Returns:

the entry

list

public java.lang.String[] list()

List all names of entries in container.

Returns:

the list of all entries