Package de.aristaflow.adept2.core.runtimemanager.gui

Interface RemoteGUIManager

All Superinterfaces:
ActivityStateNotification, ADEPT2Service, GUIManager
All Known Implementing Classes:
AbstractGUIManager, NullGUIManager, RemoteHTMLGUIManager
public interface RemoteGUIManager extends GUIManager, ActivityStateNotification
A RemoteGUIManager extends a normal GUI manager by the means to create local GUI contexts based on a transferred GUI context. That is a component is executed on a remote machine having an appropriate GUI context. This GUI context can be used remotely for instance a HTML-GUI. For this to work, the remote machine offers a web server that publishes the HTML and interacts with the executed component via the corresponding GUI context (HTMLContext). Therefore this GUI context cannot be transferred to the client. But it can be replaced by a simpler GUI context only providing the URL of the HTMLContext on the web server. This simpler GUI context implements TransferableGUIContext. However, transferring alone is not sufficient, someone needs to open the URL in a browser. This is the responsibility of this RemoteGUIManager.
A RemoteGUIManager creates GUI contexts for TransferableGUIContexts that have been received by starting an activity remotely via SynchronousActivityStarting. It then creates a local GUI context similar to the normal GUI contexts except that the created GUI context does not interact with the corresponding executable component at least not locally. However, the local GUI context needs to interact with the remotely executed component. At least closing the local GUI context needs to be notified to the remotely executed component. Vice versa terminating the executed component directly via its ExecutionControlManager, for instance closing the component in the worklist, needs to be notified to the GUI context. Otherwise the GUI context can be closed while the component keeps on running or the component terminates but the GUI context is not closed.

It is the responsibility of the RemoteGUIManager and the created local GUI contexts to establish this interaction appropriately. For instance, for a TransferableURLContext (a TransferableGUIContext) a local GUI context consisting of a browser having the appropriate URL is provided. When closing this browser, the local GUI context needs to terminate the remotely executed component via the corresponding ExecutionControlManager. Vice versa when terminating the remotely executed component, the local GUI context needs to be closed. This is achieved via the provided ActivityStateNotification.
A RemoteGUIManager needs to provide this ActivityStateNotification. As soon as a termination notification arrives, the corresponding local GUI context should be closed. For this to work, a RemoteGUIManager needs to be exported, that is, it needs to be accessible from remote machines.

Author:
Ulrich Kreher

  • Method Details

    • getLocalForRemoteGuiContext

      GUIContext getLocalForRemoteGuiContext(SessionToken session, de.aristaflow.adept2.model.runtimeenvironment.guicontext.TransferableGUIContext transfrdCtxt) throws GUIContextUnavailableException
      Gets an appropriate GUI context for the designated TransferableGUIContext. The created context represents the designated context locally and can be any arbitrary appropriate GUI context. This can be the same GUI context provided by GUIManager but usually the remote execution requires some special logic in the local GUI context.
      Applications using the GUI context should cast the returned instance to the appropriate implementation.
      Parameters:
      session - The session which is used to check for access rights on this method.
      transfrdCtxt - The GUI context retrieved from the component that is executed remotely. This needs to be wrapped appropriately in a local GUI context.
      Returns:
      The context containing the appropriate GUI for remotely execution of the component of the designated RemoteGUIContext. This can usually be ignored since the RemoteGUIManager integrates the GUIContext in the local GUI and handles closing it.
      Throws:
      GUIContextUnavailableException - If no GUI context can be created for the designated TransferableGUIContext, a GUIContextUnavailableException will be thrown.

    • getActivityStateListenerURIs

      URI[] getActivityStateListenerURIs(SessionToken session, EBPInstanceReference activity) throws ServiceNotKnownException
      Registers this GUI manager as state listener for the designated activity and returns the URIs of the (local) notification service that needs to be registered at the SynchronousActivityStarting.
      Parameters:
      session - The session which is used to check for access rights on this method.
      activity - The activity for which to receive activity state notifications.
      Returns:
      The URIs of the (local) notification service to be registered at the SynchronousActivityStarting.
      Throws:
      ServiceNotKnownException - If the notification service cannot be retrieved, a ServiceNotKnownException will be thrown.