agentland.device
Interface UniversalDevice

All Superinterfaces:

Agent, Device, Good, Managed, Remote, Spy

All Known Implementing Classes:

UniversalDeviceAgent

public interface UniversalDevice

extends Device

Fields inherited from interface metaglue.Agent

ALIVE, DIED, NO_METAGLUE, NOT_RUNNING, STARTING

Method Summary

AgentID	getActualDevice()
boolean	startSpeech() If possible, this method should load appropriate speech control for the device.

Methods inherited from interface agentland.device.Device

addName, getName, getNames, getState, getState, getStateNames, hasName, resetAllStates, resetName, resetState, resetState, setName, setState

Methods inherited from interface agentland.resource.Managed

getNeed, replace, replace, resources, yank, yank

Methods inherited from interface agentland.util.Good

getHistory, getHistoryElement, resetHistory

Methods inherited from interface metaglue.Agent

addMonitor, alive, getAgentID, getMetaglueAgentID, shutdown, startup, whereAreYou

Methods inherited from interface agentland.util.Spy

tell

Method Detail

getActualDevice

public AgentID getActualDevice()
                        throws RemoteException

startSpeech

public boolean startSpeech()
                    throws RemoteException

If possible, this method should load appropriate speech control for the device.

Returns:

true if speech was started, false otherwise