org.apache.excalibur.instrument
Interface InstrumentManager

All Known Subinterfaces:

DefaultInstrumentManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultInstrumentManagerImpl, NoopInstrumentManager

public interface InstrumentManager

Since:

4.1

Version:

CVS $Revision: 1.4 $ $Date: 2004/02/28 11:47:28 $

Author:

Avalon Development Team

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

ROLE

Method Summary

void	registerInstrumentable(Instrumentable instrumentable, java.lang.String instrumentableName) Instrumentable to be registered with the instrument manager.

Field Detail

ROLE

public static final java.lang.String ROLE

Method Detail

registerInstrumentable

public void registerInstrumentable(Instrumentable instrumentable,
                                   java.lang.String instrumentableName)
                            throws java.lang.Exception

Instrumentable to be registered with the instrument manager. Should be called whenever an Instrumentable is created. The '.' character is used to denote a child Instrumentable and can be used to register the instrumentable at a specific point in an instrumentable hierarchy.

Parameters:

instrumentable - Instrumentable to register with the InstrumentManager.

instrumentableName - The name to use when registering the Instrumentable.

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - If there were any problems registering the Instrumentable.