org.apache.avalon.excalibur.datasource
Interface DataSourceComponent

All Superinterfaces:

Component, Configurable, ThreadSafe

All Known Subinterfaces:

HashedDataSourceCluster, IndexedDataSourceCluster, RoundRobinDataSourceCluster, TraceableDataSourceComponent

All Known Implementing Classes:

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

public interface DataSourceComponent
extends Component, Configurable, 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

static String

ROLE The name of the role for convenience

Method Summary

Connection

getConnection() Gets the Connection to the database

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

configure

Field Detail

ROLE

static final String ROLE

The name of the role for convenience

Method Detail

getConnection

Connection getConnection()
                         throws 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.

SQLException