com.bea.p13n.advisor
Interface Advisor

All Known Subinterfaces:

EjbAdvisor

public interface Advisor

An Advisor makes recommendations when provided with an advice request. The Advisor subsystem is designed to isolate clients from implementations that provide the advice required.

Method Summary

Advice	getAdvice(AdviceRequest request) Get recommendations based on the request submitted.
Advice	getAdvice(java.lang.String uri) Get recommendations based on the uri submitted.

Method Detail

getAdvice

public Advice getAdvice(AdviceRequest request)
                 throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException,
                        java.rmi.RemoteException,
                        AdvisorException

Get recommendations based on the request submitted. AdviceRequest objects should be obtained from the AdvisorFactory class.

Parameters:

request - Request for advice.

Returns:

The recommendations as an AdviceResults object.

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - thrown if request is null.

AdvisorException - thrown on an error processing request.

getAdvice

public Advice getAdvice(java.lang.String uri)
                 throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException,
                        java.rmi.RemoteException,
                        AdvisorException

Get recommendations based on the uri submitted. Requests made using this method will not provide the associated Advislet with access to their session data.

Parameters:

uri - Request for advice.

Returns:

The recommendations as an AdviceResults object.

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - thrown if request is null.

AdvisorException - thrown on an error processing request.