com.ibm.portal.portletmodel
Interface CommunicationEndpoint

All Superinterfaces:

Identifiable, Localized

All Known Subinterfaces:

CommunicationSource, CommunicationTarget, ProcessingEventDefinition, PublishingEventDefinition

public interface CommunicationEndpoint
extends Localized, Identifiable

Interface that describes a communication endpoint for property broker. This interface also provides the locale specific information as part of the Localized interface that can be used to display the endpoint, e.g. a in wiring tool.

Since:

6.1.0.0

Method Summary

CommunicationDatatype	getDatatype() Return the data type for the data produced or consumed by this endpoint.
java.lang.String	getName() Returns the name of the endpoint.

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.portal.Localized

getDescription, getLocales, getTitle

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.portal.Identifiable

getObjectID

Method Detail

getName

java.lang.String getName()

Returns the name of the endpoint. The name must be unique within the scope of a portlet and can be used to uniquely refer to the endpoint.

Returns:

The endpoint's name.

getDatatype

CommunicationDatatype getDatatype()

Return the data type for the data produced or consumed by this endpoint. Used to match communication sources to targets.

Returns:

The CommunicationDatatype of this communication endpoint.