1 /* 2 * JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source 3 * Copyright 2005, JBoss Inc., and individual contributors as indicated 4 * by the @authors tag. See the copyright.txt in the distribution for a 5 * full listing of individual contributors. 6 * 7 * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 8 * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 9 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of 10 * the License, or (at your option) any later version. 11 * 12 * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 13 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 14 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 15 * Lesser General Public License for more details. 16 * 17 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 18 * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free 19 * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 20 * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. 21 */ 22 package org.jboss.tm; 23 24 import org.jboss.tm.remoting.interfaces.Resource; 25 26 /** 27 * Interface of a factory that creates references to DTM or OTS resources. 28 * In order to register itself as a subcoordinator with the parent coordinator, 29 * a <code>TransactionImpl</code> instance needs to obtain a reference to a 30 * resource associated with itself. It calls a <code>ResourceFactory</code> to 31 * obtain that reference, which it then uses as the resource parameter in a 32 * call to <code>registerResource</code> on the parent coordinator. 33 * 34 * @author <a HREF="mailto:reverbel@ime.usp.br">Francisco Reverbel</a> 35 * @version $Revision: 37459 $ 36 */ 37 public interface ResourceFactory 38 { 39 /** 40 * Creates a reference to a DTM or OTS resource that corresponds to the 41 * transaction with a given <code>localId</code>. 42 * @param localId the local id of a transaction 43 * @return a <code>Resource</code> reference 44 */ 45 Resource createResource(long localId); 46 } 47