org.gridlab.gat.resources
Interface Resource

All Superinterfaces:

Advertisable, Monitorable, Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

HardwareResource

All Known Implementing Classes:

SoftwareResource

public interface Resource
extends Monitorable, Advertisable, Serializable

Resource is a base interface which is realized by any class which wishes to indicate it represents a node or component; currently both a HardwareResource and a SoftwareResource realize this interface. A Reservation may be associated with this Resource, and can be obtained by the operation getReservation.

Author:

rob

Method Summary

Reservation	getReservation() Returns a Reservation associated with this Resource, or null if no reservation was associated.
ResourceDescription	getResourceDescription() Returns the ResourceDescription which describes this Resource instance.

Methods inherited from interface org.gridlab.gat.monitoring.Monitorable

addMetricListener, getMeasurement, getMetricDefinitionByName, getMetricDefinitions, removeMetricListener

Methods inherited from interface org.gridlab.gat.advert.Advertisable

marshal

Method Detail

getResourceDescription

ResourceDescription getResourceDescription()

Returns the ResourceDescription which describes this Resource instance.

Returns:

the ResourceDescription which describes this Resource instance.

getReservation

Reservation getReservation()

Returns a Reservation associated with this Resource, or null if no reservation was associated.

Returns:

a Reservation associated with this Resource, or null if no reservation was associated.