org.wsmo.service.rule
Interface UpdateRule

All Superinterfaces:

ChoreographyRule, Rule

All Known Subinterfaces:

Add, Delete, Update

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractUpdateRule, AddRI, DeleteRI, UpdateRI

public interface UpdateRule
extends ChoreographyRule

An UpdateRule is an unconditional rule that specificies a certain kind of state update. The indent of this interface is to provide uniform, generic access to all kind of UpdateRules.

     Created on Jul 26, 2005
     Committed by $Author: vassil_momtchev $
     $Source$
 

Version:

$Revision: 1844 $ $Date: 2006-10-24 17:11:48 +0300 (Tue, 24 Oct 2006) $

Author:

James Scicluna, Thomas Haselwanter, Holger Lausen

Method Summary

CompoundFact	getFact() Returns the compound fact defined by an update rule
void	setFact(CompoundFact fact) Sets the fact of the update rule

Methods inherited from interface org.wsmo.service.rule.Rule

accept, toString

Method Detail

getFact

CompoundFact getFact()

Returns the compound fact defined by an update rule

Returns:

A CompoundFact object

setFact

void setFact(CompoundFact fact)
             throws org.wsmo.common.exception.InvalidModelException

Sets the fact of the update rule

Parameters:

fact - A CompoundFact object to defining the fact of the update rule

Throws:

org.wsmo.common.exception.InvalidModelException