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 }