com.sun.jmx.remote.generic

Interface ProfileServerProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

ServerProvider, ServerProvider

public interface ProfileServerProvider

A provider for creating profiles given a profile name. Instances of this interface are created by ProfileServerFactory as part of its createProfile method.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
ProfileServer	createProfile(String profile, Map environment) Create a new profile.

Method Detail

createProfile

ProfileServer createProfile(String profile,
                            Map environment)
                     throws ProfileProviderException

Create a new profile. Each successful call to this method produces a different ProfileServer object.

Parameters:

profile - the name of the profile to be created.

environment - a read-only Map containing named attributes to determine how the profile is created. Keys in this map must be Strings. The appropriate type of each associated value depends on the attribute.

Returns:

a ProfileServer representing the new profile. Each successful call to this method produces a different object.

Throws:

NullPointerException - if profile or environment is null.

ProfileProviderException