com.infoscape.proteus
Interface MessageSink

All Superinterfaces:

MessageHandler, Transactional

All Known Subinterfaces:

Speaker

All Known Implementing Classes:

FilteredSink, Router, SinkImpl

public interface MessageSink

extends MessageHandler

A MessageSink is something that can accept a message. Examples would be a message queue, a database table, an email address, or a file.

Method Summary

void	putMessage(java.lang.Object msg) This method takes an Object as parameter.

Methods inherited from interface com.infoscape.proteus.MessageHandler

disconnect, getConnection, reconnect

Methods inherited from interface com.infoscape.proteus.Transactional

commit, rollback, setSyncPoint

Method Detail

putMessage

public void putMessage(java.lang.Object msg)
                throws java.lang.Exception

This method takes an Object as parameter. In real life this is usually a string, but we have found that the flexibility gained by declaring this as an Object can be very useful.

Parameters:

msg -

Throws:

java.lang.Exception