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Interface ComputerPlayer

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultComputerPlayer

public interface ComputerPlayer

This interface provides method declarations that have to be implemented by computer player developers to let their computer player be startable from the KoSI server.

ChangeLog:

 $Log: ComputerPlayer.java,v $
 Revision 1.1  2001/08/21 11:23:45  betacarotine
 continued implementing the computer player integration


 

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $ ($Date: 2001/08/21 11:23:45 $)

Author:

PG KoSI, Fachbereich Informatik, Universitaet Oldenburg

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getName() This method returns the name of the computer player (not the login name but the name that the programmers gave their product).
void	start(java.lang.String login, java.lang.String password, java.lang.String server) Starts the computer player with the given login name.

Method Detail

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

This method returns the name of the computer player (not the login name but the name that the programmers gave their product).

Returns:

The name of the computer player.

start

public void start(java.lang.String login,
                  java.lang.String password,
                  java.lang.String server)
           throws ComputerPlayerException

Starts the computer player with the given login name. It then should connect to the server and wait to be invited to a table.

Parameters:

login - The login name that the computer player should use.

password - The password that the computer player needs to log in.

server - The server the computer player should connect to.

Throws:

ComputerPlayerException - If the start of the computer player failed.