1 /***
2 *
3 * Copyright 2005 LogicBlaze, Inc.
4 *
5 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
6 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
7 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
8 *
9 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
10 *
11 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
12 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
13 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
14 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
15 * limitations under the License.
16 *
17 **/
18 package org.logicblaze.lingo;
19
20 import org.aopalliance.intercept.MethodInvocation;
21
22 import java.io.Serializable;
23 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
24
25 /***
26 * Represents the metadata strategy used to decide which methods
27 * are one-way and which methods have parameters which should not
28 * be serialised etc.
29 *
30 * @version $Revision: 1.4 $
31 */
32 public interface MetadataStrategy extends Serializable {
33
34 /***
35 * Generates the method specific metadata for the given method invocation
36 */
37 public MethodMetadata getMethodMetadata(Method method);
38
39 /***
40 * Returns the strategy for joining multiple results together when communicating with multiple back end
41 * servers over topics.
42 */
43 public ResultJoinStrategy getResultJoinStrategy(MethodInvocation methodInvocation, MethodMetadata metadata);
44
45 }