Application: gvSIG desktop

/* gvSIG. Geographic Information System of the Valencian Government

 *

 * Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Infrastructures and Transports Department

 * of the Valencian Government (CIT)

 *

 * 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., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,

 * MA  02110-1301, USA.

 *

 */

/*

* AUTHORS (In addition to CIT):

* 2008 IVER T.I. S.A.   {{Task}}

*/

package org.gvsig.fmap.dal;

/**

 * This interface is used by any store implementation that requires

 * store specific parameters.

 * 

 * The naming convention for specializations of this class is

 * <store-name>StoreParameters.

 */

public interface DataStoreParameters extends

                DataParameters {

        /**

         * Returns the DataStore's name

         * @return a String containing the DataStore's name

         */

        public abstract String getDataStoreName();

        /**

         * Indicates whether these parameters are valid.

         * 

         * @return true if these parameters are valid, false if not.

         */

        public abstract boolean isValid();

        /**

         * Returns the DataStore's description

         * 

         * @return a String containing the DataStore's description

         */

        public abstract String getDescription();

}