| /**************************************************************************** |
| * Copyright (c) 2004 Composent, Inc. and others. |
| * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials |
| * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 |
| * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html |
| * |
| * Contributors: |
| * Composent, Inc. - initial API and implementation |
| *****************************************************************************/ |
| |
| package org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice; |
| |
| /** |
| * Instances of this interface are used to invoke a method |
| * call on a remote service |
| * |
| * @see IRemoteService |
| */ |
| public interface IRemoteCall { |
| /** |
| * Get the method name to call on the remote. Must return a non-null and non-empty |
| * string |
| * @return String name of method to call on the remote |
| */ |
| public String getMethod(); |
| /** |
| * Get the method parameters of the method to call on the remote. Must return a non-null |
| * and non-empty array of Object parameters. The given Objects in the array must be |
| * be Serializable so that they may be serialized to deliver to remote. |
| * |
| * @return Object [] the parameters to be provided for this call |
| */ |
| public Object [] getParameters(); |
| /** |
| * Get timeout (in ms) for the remote call. |
| * |
| * @return long timeout in ms |
| */ |
| public long getTimeout(); |
| } |
