lazyj.notifications
Class Notifier

java.lang.Object
  lazyj.notifications.Notifier

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.util.Observer

public final class Notifier
extends java.lang.Object
implements java.util.Observer

Notification hub. The actual senders are defined in a ExtProperties object. The structure must be:
senders=N

for (I in 1..N)
sender_I.class=classname
sender_I.key1=value1
...

The class must be an instance of Sender. See subclasses of Sender for details on what keys and values are expected for each.

If you want the code to react to file changes please make sure ExtProperties.setAutoReload(long) is called for the instance you give here.

Since:

Nov 16, 2007 (1.0.3)

Author:

costing

Constructor Summary

Notifier(ExtProperties prop)

Notifier(ExtProperties prop, java.lang.ClassLoader loader)
If you want to load arbitrary classes from one of the senders you should use this method, giving as argument this.getClass().getClassLoader().

Method Summary

boolean	send(Message m) Send a message though all the defined channels
void	update(java.util.Observable o, java.lang.Object arg)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Notifier

public Notifier(ExtProperties prop)

Parameters:

prop -

Notifier

public Notifier(ExtProperties prop,
                java.lang.ClassLoader loader)

If you want to load arbitrary classes from one of the senders you should use this method, giving as argument this.getClass().getClassLoader(). You should also use this constructor if you want to load custom Sender classes that reside inside a webapp zone (or anywhere else where it is not accessible through the default class loader).

Parameters:

prop -

loader -

Method Detail

send

public boolean send(Message m)

Send a message though all the defined channels

Parameters:

m -

Returns:

true if the sending was successful with all the defined senders

update

public void update(java.util.Observable o,
                   java.lang.Object arg)

Specified by:

update in interface java.util.Observer