biz.janux.people
Interface Party

All Superinterfaces:

Cloneable, Contacteable, Persistent, Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

Organization, Person

public interface Party
extends Persistent, Contacteable, Serializable, Cloneable

Organization and people have common characteristics that describe them, such as addresses, phone numbers and email addresses; they can also play similar roles as parties to contracts, such as buyers/sellers, client/provider, etc; this interface is the super type for the Person and Organization interfaces and provides a mean to refer to their implementing classes as a whole

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.janux.bus.persistence.Persistent

UNSAVED_ID

Method Summary

Object	clone()
String	getCode() optional string identifier for this Party
Map<String,ContactMethod>	getContactMethods() map of ContactMethods keyed by a string code representing a user-defined kind of ContactMethod, such as PHYSICAL_ADDRESS, CUST_SERVICE_PHONE, EMAIL_INFO, etc...
biz.janux.commerce.FormOfPayment	getFormOfPayment(Class aFormOfPaymentClass) returns the matching type of form of payment
List<biz.janux.commerce.FormOfPayment>	getFormsOfPayment() Forms of payment associated with this party
PartyName	getPartyName() The name(s) by which this Party is known; sub-classes may implement this in different ways; for Persons, for example, it may the concatenation of the first and last name, while for an Organization it may be a short name or legal name
void	setCode(String code)
void	setContactMethods(Map<String,ContactMethod> aContactMethods)
void	setFormsOfPayment(List<biz.janux.commerce.FormOfPayment> fopList)

Methods inherited from interface org.janux.bus.persistence.Persistent

getId, setId

Methods inherited from interface biz.janux.people.Contacteable

getContactMethod, getEmailAddress, getEmailAddresses, getPhoneNumber, getPhoneNumbers, getPostalAddress, getPostalAddresses, getUrl, getUrls, setContactMethod

Method Detail

getCode

String getCode()

optional string identifier for this Party

setCode

void setCode(String code)

getPartyName

PartyName getPartyName()

The name(s) by which this Party is known; sub-classes may implement this in different ways; for Persons, for example, it may the concatenation of the first and last name, while for an Organization it may be a short name or legal name

getFormOfPayment

biz.janux.commerce.FormOfPayment getFormOfPayment(Class aFormOfPaymentClass)

returns the matching type of form of payment

getFormsOfPayment

List<biz.janux.commerce.FormOfPayment> getFormsOfPayment()

Forms of payment associated with this party

Returns:

a list containing all the forms of payment associated with the party

setFormsOfPayment

void setFormsOfPayment(List<biz.janux.commerce.FormOfPayment> fopList)

Parameters:

fopList - The fopList to set.

getContactMethods

Map<String,ContactMethod> getContactMethods()

Description copied from interface: Contacteable

map of ContactMethods keyed by a string code representing a user-defined kind of ContactMethod, such as PHYSICAL_ADDRESS, CUST_SERVICE_PHONE, EMAIL_INFO, etc...

Specified by:

getContactMethods in interface Contacteable

setContactMethods

void setContactMethods(Map<String,ContactMethod> aContactMethods)

Specified by:

setContactMethods in interface Contacteable

clone

Object clone()