001    /*
002      Copyright (C) 2001 Renaud Pawlak
003    
004      This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
005      it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
006      published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
007      License, or (at your option) any later version.
008    
009      This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
010      but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
011      MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
012      GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
013    
014      You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser Generaly Public License
015      along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
016      Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA */
017    
018    package org.objectweb.jac.aspects.distribution;
019    
020    /**
021     * This aspect component implements a simple broadcasting aspect.
022     *
023     * <p>Principles: a broadcaster, located on a given host forwards some
024     * calls to a set of replicas located on remote hosts.
025     *
026     * @see BroadcastingAC
027     * @author Renaud Pawlak
028     */
029    
030    public interface BroadcastingConf {
031    
032       /**
033        * This configuration method allows the user to define a
034        * broacaster.
035        *
036        * @param wrappeeName the broadcaster object and replicas names
037        * @param methods a poincut expression that defines the methods
038        * that will be broadcasted
039        * @param broadcasterHost the broadcaster host
040        * @param replicasHost the hosts of the replicas, as a regexp */
041    
042       void addBroadcaster(String wrappeeName,
043                           String methods,
044                           String broadcasterHost, 
045                           String replicasHost);
046    
047    }