resultobject.java

著名的开源仿真软件yale

/*
 *  YALE - Yet Another Learning Environment
 *  Copyright (C) 2002, 2003
 *      Simon Fischer, Ralf Klinkenberg, Ingo Mierswa, 
 *          Katharina Morik, Oliver Ritthoff
 *      Artificial Intelligence Unit
 *      Computer Science Department
 *      University of Dortmund
 *      44221 Dortmund,  Germany
 *  email: [e-mail]
 *  web:   http://yale.cs.uni-dortmund.de/
 *
 *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 *  modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as 
 *  published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
 *  License, or (at your option) any later version. 
 *
 *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 *  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
 *  General Public License for more details.
 *
 *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 *  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 *  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
 *  USA.
 */
package edu.udo.cs.yale.operator;

import java.awt.Component;
import java.util.List;

/** This interface extends IOObject and is hence an object which can be handled by
 *  operators. Additionally this object is a result and can be of interest for a user. 
 *  ResultWriters can write the results in a result file.
 *
 *  @see edu.udo.cs.yale.operator.ResultWriter
 *  @author Ingo
 *  @version $Id: ResultObject.java,v 2.1 2003/04/04 11:59:28 fischer Exp $
 */
public interface ResultObject extends IOObject {
    
    public abstract String getName();

    public abstract String toResultString(); 

    /** Returns a component that can visualise this result in the GUI. */
    public abstract Component getVisualisationComponent();

    /** Returns a list of actions (e.g. "save") that is displayed below (or near to) the
     *  visualisation component. */
    public abstract List getActions();

}