1 /*
2 wsmo4j extension - a Choreography API and Reference Implementation
3
4 Copyright (c) 2005, University of Innsbruck, Austria
5
6 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
7 the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
8 Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option)
9 any later version.
10 This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
11 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
12 FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more
13 details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along
15 with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
16 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
17 */
18
19 package org.wsmo.service.rule;
20
21 import org.wsmo.common.exception.InvalidModelException;
22
23 /**
24 * An <code>UpdateRule<code> is an unconditional rule that specificies a certain
25 * kind of state update. The indent of this interface is to provide
26 * uniform, generic access to all kind of <code>UpdateRules</code>.
27 *
28 * <pre>
29 * Created on Jul 26, 2005
30 * Committed by $Author: vassil_momtchev $
31 * $Source$
32 * </pre>
33 *
34 * @author James Scicluna
35 * @author Thomas Haselwanter
36 * @author Holger Lausen
37 *
38 * @version $Revision: 1844 $ $Date: 2006-10-24 17:11:48 +0300 (Tue, 24 Oct 2006) $
39 */
40 public interface UpdateRule extends ChoreographyRule {
41
42 /**
43 * Returns the compound fact defined by an update rule
44 *
45 * @return A CompoundFact object
46 */
47 public CompoundFact getFact();
48
49 /**
50 * Sets the fact of the update rule
51 *
52 * @param fact
53 * A CompoundFact object to defining the fact of the update rule
54 */
55 public void setFact(CompoundFact fact) throws InvalidModelException;
56
57 }