org.apache.avalon.excalibur.monitor
Interface Modifiable

All Known Implementing Classes:

DirectoryResource, FileResource, Resource, SourceResource, StreamResource

public interface Modifiable

This interface is used by the Monitor section so that we can test if a resource is modified by an external source.

Version:

$Id: Modifiable.java,v 1.4 2004/02/28 11:47:32 cziegeler Exp $

Author:

Avalon Development Team

Method Summary

long	lastModified() Simply provides the last time the resource has been modified.
void	testModifiedAfter(long time) Tests if a resource has been modified, and causes the resource to act on that test.

Method Detail

testModifiedAfter

void testModifiedAfter(long time)

Tests if a resource has been modified, and causes the resource to act on that test. The contract is that the method does its work only when the time passed in is after the last time the resource was modified.

lastModified

long lastModified()

Simply provides the last time the resource has been modified.