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Interface OutputChannel

All Known Implementing Classes:

Channel

public interface OutputChannel

This is the interface to put objects into a channel. It defines one method, writeObject().

Version:

$Id: OutputChannel.java,v 1.3 2004/01/14 21:43:17 gus Exp $

Author:

Todd C. Parnell, tparnell@ai.mit.edu

Method Summary

void	writeObject(java.lang.Object o) Attempt to place an object into the channel.

Method Detail

writeObject

public void writeObject(java.lang.Object o)
                 throws ChannelFullException,
                        ChannelDisabledException

Attempt to place an object into the channel. Note that you can place any object into a channel, though you probably only want to deal with the packets Generators create.

Parameters:

o - the object to insert

Throws:

ChannelFullException - if the channel is full and cannot accept more objects

ChannelDisabledException - if the user has disabled the channel