transport.java

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package javax.agent.service; 
import javax.agent.*;


/**
    Zeus version of the Java Agent Services Transport interface.
    
    See www.java-agent.org for the original spec (such as it is in 25/1/01). 
    @author Simon Thompson
    @version 1.1
    */
public interface Transport {
    
    
    /** 
        I anticipate that the general use case for this method will be to use an implementation 
        of zeus.actors.services.TransportFactory to generate an implentation of this interface, 
        and then call this send method in order to send a message. 
        */
    public void send (Envelope envelope);
    
   
    /** 
        I am not sure how receive() and receive (long) are going to be relevant 
        to the Zeus model of active mailboxes... Still, we shall but try!
        */
    public Envelope receive(); 
   
   
     /** 
        I am not sure how receive() and receive (long) are going to be relevant 
        to the Zeus model of active mailboxes... 
        */
    public Envelope receive(long millis) throws TimeoutException; 
    
    
    /** 
        this should return the iiop://iiop.zeus.bt.com/agentcities/adastral part of the 
        agent aid that was used to find this transport. 
        */
    public String getLocation (); 
    
    
}