org.omwg.ontology
Interface OntologyElement

All Superinterfaces:

Entity

All Known Subinterfaces:

Axiom, Concept, Instance, Relation, RelationInstance

public interface OntologyElement
extends Entity

this is a helper super-interface for ontology elements: - axioms - concepts - instances - relations - relation instances

Version:

$Revision: 1482 $ $Date: 2006-01-16 15:37:08 +0200 (Mon, 16 Jan 2006) $

Author:

not attributable

See Also:

Ontology

Method Summary

Ontology	getOntology() Retrieve the ontology containing this entity.
void	setOntology(Ontology ontology) Sets the ontology containing this entity Note that a call to setOntology() i.e.

Methods inherited from interface org.wsmo.common.Entity

addNFPValue, addNFPValue, getIdentifier, listNFPValues, listNFPValues, removeNFP, removeNFPValue, removeNFPValue

Method Detail

getOntology

Ontology getOntology()
                     throws SynchronisationException

Retrieve the ontology containing this entity.

Throws:

SynchronisationException

setOntology

void setOntology(Ontology ontology)
                 throws SynchronisationException,
                        InvalidModelException

Sets the ontology containing this entity Note that a call to setOntology() i.e. adding an element to an ontology, should also invoke the respective Ontology::addXXX() method and Ontology::removeXXX() method (of the old ontology if existing).

Parameters:

ontology - the ontology

Throws:

SynchronisationException

InvalidModelException

See Also:

getOntology(), Ontology.addAxiom(Axiom axiom), Ontology.addConcept(Concept concept), Ontology.addInstance(Instance instance), Ontology.addRelation(Relation relation), Ontology.addRelationInstance(RelationInstance instance)