org.wsmo.validator
Interface Validator

All Known Subinterfaces:

WsmlValidator

public interface Validator

An interface representing validator for WSMO entities. The validator may perform specific model checks to ensure that the entity definition is compliant with the respective WSML variant

Since:

0.4.0

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2005/09/09 15:45:06 $

Author:

not attributable

Method Summary

boolean

isValid(TopEntity te, java.util.List errorMessages) Checks whether a WSMO element definition is valid.

Method Detail

isValid

boolean isValid(TopEntity te,
                java.util.List errorMessages)

Checks whether a WSMO element definition is valid. The notion of "validity" is dependent only on the specific Validator implementation (f.e. a validity check may be whether a definition is compliant with a specific WSML variant)

Parameters:

te - the TopEntity to be validated (ontology, mediator, goal,...)

errorMessages - a collection where the validation specific error messages will be added (if any)

Returns:

valid/invalid

See Also:

Ontology