org.apache.avalon.excalibur.datasource

Interface DataSourceComponent

All Superinterfaces:

org.apache.avalon.framework.component.Component, org.apache.avalon.framework.configuration.Configurable, org.apache.avalon.framework.thread.ThreadSafe

All Known Subinterfaces:

HashedDataSourceCluster, IndexedDataSourceCluster, RoundRobinDataSourceCluster, TraceableDataSourceComponent

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultHashedDataSourceCluster, DefaultIndexedDataSourceCluster, DefaultRoundRobinDataSourceCluster, InformixDataSource, J2eeDataSource, JdbcDataSource, ResourceLimitingJdbcDataSource

public interface DataSourceComponent
extends org.apache.avalon.framework.component.Component, org.apache.avalon.framework.configuration.Configurable, org.apache.avalon.framework.thread.ThreadSafe

The standard interface for DataSources in Avalon.

Since:

4.0

Version:

CVS $Revision: 1.4 $ $Date: 2004/02/28 11:47:14 $

Author:

Avalon Development Team

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static java.lang.String	ROLE The name of the role for convenience

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.sql.Connection	getConnection() Gets the Connection to the database

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.avalon.framework.configuration.Configurable

configure

Field Detail

ROLE

static final java.lang.String ROLE

The name of the role for convenience

Method Detail

getConnection

java.sql.Connection getConnection()
                                  throws java.sql.SQLException

Gets the Connection to the database

Returns:

Connection a valid connection for you to use

Throws:

NoValidConnectionException - when there is no valid Connection wrapper available in the classloader.

NoAvailableConnectionException - when there are no more available Connections in the pool.

java.sql.SQLException