Package repast.simphony.engine.schedule

Interface IScheduleFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultGraphScheduleFactory, DefaultScheduleFactory

public interface IScheduleFactory

Interface for Factories producing Schedules.

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2005/12/21 22:25:34 $

Author:

Jerry Vos

See Also:

Schedule, ISchedulableAction, ISchedulableActionFactory

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
ISchedule	createSchedule()	Creates a Schedule that by default uses the factory set in this interface to create its scheduled actions.
ISchedule	createSchedule(ISchedulableActionFactory factory)	Creates a Schedule that will use the specified ISchedulableActionFactory to create its scheduled actions.
void	setDefaultSchedulableActionFactory(ISchedulableActionFactory defaultFactory)	Sets the action factory that will be used when createSchedule is called with no arguments.

Method Detail

createSchedule

ISchedule createSchedule(ISchedulableActionFactory factory)

Creates a Schedule that will use the specified ISchedulableActionFactory to create its scheduled actions.

Parameters:

factory - the factory to use to create the actions that the Schedule will schedule

Returns:

a schedule that uses the specified factory

createSchedule

ISchedule createSchedule()

Creates a Schedule that by default uses the factory set in this interface to create its scheduled actions.

The behavior that occurs when a default action factory has not been set is per-implementation specific, but in most cases there should be a reasonable default.

Returns:

a schedule that uses the default factory

setDefaultSchedulableActionFactory

void setDefaultSchedulableActionFactory(ISchedulableActionFactory defaultFactory)

Sets the action factory that will be used when createSchedule is called with no arguments.

Parameters:

defaultFactory - the default factory to use if one isn't specified