org.sapia.regis
Interface Registry

All Known Implementing Classes:

CacheRegistry, HibernateRegistry, LocalRegistry, PrevaylerRegistry, RemoteRegistry, RemoteRegistryProxy

public interface Registry

This interface models a "configuration registry", in which configuration is hierarchically kept.

All accesses to a registry, in the context of a given thread, must be done using a session that was acquired from that registry, according to the following programming model:

 RegisSession session = registry.open();
 try{
   Node root = registry.getRoot();
   ...
 }finally{
   session.close();
 }
 

Author:

yduchesne

Method Summary

void	close() Closes this instance.
Node	getRoot()
RegisSession	open() Opens a session linked to this instance and returns it.

Method Detail

getRoot

Node getRoot()

Returns:

the root Node of this instance.

open

RegisSession open()

Opens a session linked to this instance and returns it.

Returns:

a RegisSession.

close

void close()

Closes this instance.