ccc.commons
Interface Registry

All Known Implementing Classes:

JNDI, MapRegistry

public interface Registry

A public API for a registry. Registries are used look up other objects. See See Martin Fowler's description (http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/registry.html) for more details.

Author:

Civic Computing Ltd.

Method Summary

<T> T	get(java.lang.String location) Get an object from the registry.
Registry	put(java.lang.String location, java.lang.Object object) Put an object into JNDI.

Method Detail

get

<T> T get(java.lang.String location)

Get an object from the registry.

Type Parameters:

T - The type of the object at the specified location.

Parameters:

location - Location in the registry.

Returns:

The object at the specified location or NULL if the location is not found.

put

Registry put(java.lang.String location,
             java.lang.Object object)

Put an object into JNDI.

Parameters:

location - Location in the in the registry.

object - The object to put.

Returns:

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