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/*
 * #%L
 * Nuiton Utils
 * *
 * $Id: RemoteMethodExecutor.java 2141 2011-05-15 10:35:56Z tchemit $
 * $HeadURL: http://svn.nuiton.org/svn/nuiton-utils/tags/nuiton-utils-2.6.10/nuiton-utils/src/main/java/org/nuiton/util/rmi/RemoteMethodExecutor.java $
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package org.nuiton.util.rmi;

import java.rmi.Remote;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;

/**
 * This class will act as an InvocationHandler except that it is distributed.
 *
 * @author Arnaud Thimel 
 */
public interface RemoteMethodExecutor extends Remote {

    /**
     * Acts like an InvocationHandler.
     *
     * @param methodName     name of the method to invoke
     * @param parametersType parameters type to reliably identify the method
     * @param args           method arguments to process the effective call
     * @return the result of the delegate method
     * @throws RemoteException for any error. Business exceptions will be
     *                         wrapped.
     */
    Object execute(String methodName, Class[] parametersType, Object[] args)
            throws RemoteException;

}