com.metamatrix.core.event
Interface EventBroker

All Superinterfaces:

java.util.EventListener, EventObjectListener, EventSource

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractEventBroker, AsynchEventBroker

public interface EventBroker
extends EventSource, EventObjectListener

Method Summary

boolean	hasUnprocessedEvents() Return whether this broker has at least one event that has yet to be processed and sent to the appropriate listeners.
boolean	isShutdown()
boolean	shutdown()

Methods inherited from interface com.metamatrix.core.event.EventSource

addListener, addListener, getAllListeners, getListeners, getListeners, removeAllListeners, removeListener, removeListener

Methods inherited from interface com.metamatrix.core.event.EventObjectListener

processEvent

Method Detail

shutdown

boolean shutdown()
                 throws EventBrokerException

Throws:

EventBrokerException

isShutdown

boolean isShutdown()

hasUnprocessedEvents

boolean hasUnprocessedEvents()

Return whether this broker has at least one event that has yet to be processed and sent to the appropriate listeners.

Returns:

true if there are events that have yet to be processed, or false otherwise.