Metacat

/**

 *  '$RCSfile$'

 *    Purpose: A Class that implements utility methods like:

 *             1/ Reding all doctypes from db connection

 *             2/ Reading DTD or Schema file from Metacat catalog system

 *             3/ Reading Lore type Data Guide from db connection

 *  Copyright: 2000 Regents of the University of California and the

 *             National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

 *    Authors: Jivka Bojilova

 *

 *   '$Author$'

 *     '$Date$'

 * '$Revision$'

 *

 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

 * (at your option) any later version.

 *

 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

 * GNU General Public License for more details.

 *

 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

 */

package edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.service;

/**

 * A suite of utility classes for querying DB

 *

 */

	// we only want ServiceService calling this.

	abstract boolean refreshable();

	protected abstract void doRefresh() throws ServiceException;

	// calling this.

	void refresh() throws ServiceException{

			doRefresh();

		}

	}

//	abstract void stop() throws ServiceException;

}