org.sapia.ubik.rmi.naming
Interface ServiceHandler

All Known Implementing Classes:

JNDIHandler

public interface ServiceHandler

An instance of this class performs lookups on behalf of the ServiceLocator.

Author:

Yanick Duchesne

Copyright:

Copyright © 2002-2003 Sapia Open Source Software. All Rights Reserved.

License:

Read the license.txt file of the jar or visit the license page at the Sapia OSS web site

See Also:

ServiceLocator

Method Summary

java.lang.Object

handleLookup(java.lang.String host, int port, java.lang.String path, java.util.Map attributes) Handles the lookup for the given path, given the host and port.

Method Detail

handleLookup

java.lang.Object handleLookup(java.lang.String host,
                              int port,
                              java.lang.String path,
                              java.util.Map attributes)
                              throws javax.naming.NameNotFoundException,
                                     javax.naming.NamingException

Handles the lookup for the given path, given the host and port.

Parameters:

host - the host to look up.

port - the port on which to connect. If the port corresponds to the UNDEFINED_PORT constant, it means that the caller has not specified any port (a necessary feature in order to support well-known ports).

path - the path of the object to look up.

attributes - a Map of attributes - the latter correspond to the query string parameters that is parsed out of the URL that is specified to the ServiceLocator.

Returns:

an Object

Throws:

javax.naming.NameNotFoundException - if no object could be found for the given path.

javax.naming.NamingException - if an error occurs while performing the lookup.