org.gytheio.health.heartbeat

Interface Heart

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractHeartImpl

public interface Heart

Defines the object responsible for producing Heartbeats which let services monitor health of other services in the system.

Author:

Ray Gauss II

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Heartbeat	beat() Returns a single Heartbeat object without sending via messaging
void	start() Starts the repeated sending of Heartbeat messages for health monitoring
void	stop() Stops the repeated sending of Heartbeat messages for health monitoring

Method Detail

start

void start()

Starts the repeated sending of Heartbeat messages for health monitoring

stop

void stop()

Stops the repeated sending of Heartbeat messages for health monitoring

beat

Heartbeat beat()

Returns a single Heartbeat object without sending via messaging

Returns:

the heartbeat object