javax.enterprise.deploy.spi.factories
Interface DeploymentFactory

public interface DeploymentFactory

The DeploymentFactory interface is a deployment driver for a J2EE plaform product. It returns a DeploymentManager object which represents a connection to a specific J2EE platform product. Each application server vendor must provide an implementation of this class in order for the J2EE Deployment API to work with their product. The class implementing this interface should have a public no-argument constructor, and it should be stateless (two instances of the class should always behave the same). It is suggested but not required that the class have a static initializer that registers an instance of the class with the DeploymentFactoryManager class. A connected or disconnected DeploymentManager can be requested. A DeploymentManager that runs connected to the platform can provide access to J2EE resources. A DeploymentManager that runs disconnected only provides module deployment configuration support.

Version:

$Rev: 46019 $ $Date: 2004-09-14 02:56:06 -0700 (Tue, 14 Sep 2004) $

See Also:

DeploymentFactoryManager

Method Summary

DeploymentManager	getDeploymentManager(String uri, String username, String password) Returns a connected DeploymentManager instance.
DeploymentManager	getDisconnectedDeploymentManager(String uri) Returns a disconnected DeploymentManager instance.
String	getDisplayName() Provide a string with the name of this vendor's DeploymentManager.
String	getProductVersion() Provides a string identifying the version of this vendor's DeploymentManager.
boolean	handlesURI(String uri) Tests whether this factory can create a DeploymentManager object based on the specified URI.

Method Detail

handlesURI

boolean handlesURI(String uri)

Tests whether this factory can create a DeploymentManager object based on the specified URI. This does not indicate whether such an attempt will be successful, only whether the factory can handle the uri.

Parameters:

uri - The uri to check

Returns:

true if the factory can handle the uri.

getDeploymentManager

DeploymentManager getDeploymentManager(String uri,
                                       String username,
                                       String password)
                                       throws DeploymentManagerCreationException

Returns a connected DeploymentManager instance.

Parameters:

uri - The URI that specifies the connection parameters

username - An optional username (may be null if no authentication is required for this platform).

password - An optional password (may be null if no authentication is required for this platform).

Returns:

A ready DeploymentManager instance.

Throws:

DeploymentManagerCreationException - occurs when a DeploymentManager could not be returned (server down, unable to authenticate, etc).

getDisconnectedDeploymentManager

DeploymentManager getDisconnectedDeploymentManager(String uri)
                                                   throws DeploymentManagerCreationException

Returns a disconnected DeploymentManager instance.

Parameters:

uri - the uri of the DeploymentManager to return.

Returns:

A DeploymentManager disconnected instance.

Throws:

DeploymentManagerCreationException - occurs if the DeploymentManager could not be created.

getDisplayName

String getDisplayName()

Provide a string with the name of this vendor's DeploymentManager.

Returns:

the name of the vendor's DeploymentManager.

getProductVersion

String getProductVersion()

Provides a string identifying the version of this vendor's DeploymentManager.

Returns:

the name of the vendor's DeploymentManager.