com.artima.place
Interface PlaceHolder

public interface PlaceHolder

Interface implemented by services that can produce a Place service, a map of Links to services on the network. For example, a document service may produce a Place full of Links to individual paragraphs within the document. Such places can be used by search engines to index more precisely the information and functionality contained within each service.

Method Summary

Place

getPlace() Returns a Place, a map of Links to services on the network.

Method Detail

getPlace

public Place getPlace()
               throws java.rmi.RemoteException

Returns a Place, a map of Links to services on the network.

Returns:

the Place held by this PlaceHolder

Throws:

java.rmi.RemoteException - if a network problem prevents this method from fulfilling its contractual obligations