Advisor Interface

com.bea.p13n.advisor
Advisor Interface

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.

All Known Subinterfaces

EjbAdvisor

Method Summary
public Advice
getAdvice(AdviceRequest request)
Get recommendations based on the request submitted.
public Advice
getAdvice(String uri)
Get recommendations based on the uri submitted.

Method Detail

getAdvice(AdviceRequest) Method

public Advice getAdvice(AdviceRequest request)
     throws IllegalArgumentException, 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.

Exceptions

IllegalArgumentException
thrown if request is null.
RemoteException
AdvisorException
thrown on an error processing request.

getAdvice(String) Method

public Advice getAdvice(String uri)
     throws IllegalArgumentException, 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.

Exceptions

IllegalArgumentException
thrown if request is null.
RemoteException
AdvisorException
thrown on an error processing request.