com.mf.kennewick.broker
Class BrokerRegistry

java.lang.Object
  com.mf.kennewick.broker.BrokerRegistry

Direct Known Subclasses:

EJBBrokerRegistry

public abstract class BrokerRegistry

extends java.lang.Object

Base class for Kennewick Broker registries. The broker registry's job is to instantiate brokers, speical queries, special updates, and transactions for use in the domain and delegate layers. Kennewick applications must define a "kennewick.broker.registry" property whose value is the fully qualified name of the implementing broker registry.

Author:

Jeffrey Payne

Constructor Summary

BrokerRegistry()

Method Summary

abstract IBroker	getBroker(java.lang.Class aDomainClass) Returns the broker used to perform mapping operations on the given Class.
abstract IBroker	getBroker(KennewickObject anObject) Returns the broker used to perform mapping operations on the given domain object.
abstract ITransaction	getTransaction() Returns a new transaction of the appropriate type for the type of persistence mechanism.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

BrokerRegistry

public BrokerRegistry()

Method Detail

getBroker

public abstract IBroker getBroker(KennewickObject anObject)

Returns the broker used to perform mapping operations on the given domain object.

Parameters:

anObject -

Returns:

getBroker

public abstract IBroker getBroker(java.lang.Class aDomainClass)

Returns the broker used to perform mapping operations on the given Class.

Parameters:

aDomainClass -

Returns:

getTransaction

public abstract ITransaction getTransaction()

Returns a new transaction of the appropriate type for the type of persistence mechanism.

Returns: