lima.distribution
Interface WorkUnitServer

All Superinterfaces:

java.rmi.Remote

All Known Implementing Classes:

DServer

public interface WorkUnitServer

extends java.rmi.Remote

The client-server interface - a WorkUnitServer provides WorkUnits to the clients that provide processing cycles. Once the client gets a handle to a WorkUnitServer, it should do something like this: while(!bored) { WorkUnit w = workunitserver. requestWorkUnit(); w.run(); workunitserver. submitWorkUnit(w); }

Method Summary

lima.distribution.WorkUnit	requestWorkUnit() Request a WorkUnit from the server.
void	submitWorkUnit(lima.distribution.WorkUnit u) Submit a finished WorkUnit back to the server.

Method Detail

requestWorkUnit

public lima.distribution.WorkUnit requestWorkUnit()
                                           throws java.rmi.RemoteException,
                                                  NoWorkException

Request a WorkUnit from the server. Clients SHOULD NOT request work and then not do it, but the server SHOULD NOT assume clients return all work.

Returns:

WorkUnit - A WorkUnit that needs processing (call run() on it)

java.rmi.RemoteException

NoWorkException

submitWorkUnit

public void submitWorkUnit(lima.distribution.WorkUnit u)
                    throws java.rmi.RemoteException

Submit a finished WorkUnit back to the server. It SHOULD have been processed.

Parameters:

u - - The finished WorkUnit.

java.rmi.RemoteException