forceupdatablepanel.java

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package jmt.gui.exact.panels;

/**
 * Created by IntelliJ IDEA.
 * User: OrsotronIII
 * Date: 8-mar-2005
 * Time: 23.25.50
 * This interface enables forcing of update of all data contained into a panel. This can be useful
 * to implement a quick transition from a panel to another. Implementing classes must assure perfect
 * coherence between application data and related image of them contained into the classes themselves.
 * This must be assured at the and of each of this interface's methods' call.
 */
public interface ForceUpdatablePanel {

    /**This method force a stream of data from application to GUI panel. This grants application
     * user to be working on perfectly updated data as far as <code>retrieveData()</code> was called.*/
    public void retrieveData();

    /**This method force a stream of data from GUI panel to application. This must grant other GUI
     * panels to be working on the most recently updated version of the data this GUI panel was working
     * on, so that when other implementing classes call retrieveData() they will have coherent data with
     * this class.*/
    public void commitData();


}