jhomenet.hw.management
Class HardwareFactory

java.lang.Object
  jhomenet.hw.management.HardwareFactory

public class HardwareFactory
extends java.lang.Object

Version:

$Revision: 1.3 $ Filename: $Source: /cvsroot/jhomenet/files/src/jhomenet/hw/management/HardwareFactory.java,v $ Description: {TODO: provide a class description}

Author:

$Author: dhirwinjr $

Method Summary

static HomenetHardware	newHardware(java.lang.String hardwareID, java.lang.String description, java.lang.String hardwareClassname) Create a new hardware object.
static HomenetHardware	newHardware(java.lang.String hardwareID, java.lang.String description, java.lang.String hardwareClassname, java.lang.String configuration) Create a new hardware object.
static HomenetHardware	newHardware(java.lang.String hardwareID, java.lang.String description, java.lang.String hardwareClassname, java.lang.String configuration, PollingService.PollingTypes pollingType) Create a new hardware object.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

newHardware

public static HomenetHardware newHardware(java.lang.String hardwareID,
                                          java.lang.String description,
                                          java.lang.String hardwareClassname)
                                   throws HardwareException

Create a new hardware object.

Parameters:

hardwareID -

description -

hardwareClassname -

Returns:

Throws:

HardwareException

newHardware

public static HomenetHardware newHardware(java.lang.String hardwareID,
                                          java.lang.String description,
                                          java.lang.String hardwareClassname,
                                          java.lang.String configuration)
                                   throws HardwareException

Create a new hardware object.

Parameters:

hardwareID -

description -

hardwareClassname -

configuration -

Returns:

Throws:

HardwareException

newHardware

public static HomenetHardware newHardware(java.lang.String hardwareID,
                                          java.lang.String description,
                                          java.lang.String hardwareClassname,
                                          java.lang.String configuration,
                                          PollingService.PollingTypes pollingType)
                                   throws HardwareException

Create a new hardware object.

Parameters:

hardwareID - Hardare ID

description - Hardware description

hardwareClassname - Hardware class name

pollingType - Polling type (null if hardware is a device)

configuration - Hardware configuration

Returns:

A reference to newly created Homenet hardware object

Throws:

HardwareException