001    package org.odmg;
002    
003    /* Copyright 2004-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
004     *
005     * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
006     * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
007     * You may obtain a copy of the License at
008     *
009     *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
010     *
011     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
012     * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
013     * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
014     * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
015     * limitations under the License.
016     */
017    
018    
019    /**
020     * The interface that defines the operations of an ODMG array.
021     * Nearly all of its operations are defined by the JavaSoft <code>List</code> interface.
022     * All of the operations defined by the JavaSoft <code>List</code>
023     * interface are supported by an ODMG implementation of <code>DArray</code>,
024     * the exception <code>UnsupportedOperationException</code> is not thrown when a
025     * call is made to any of the <code>List</code> methods.
026     * An instance of a class implementing this interface can be obtained
027     * by calling the method <code>Implementation.newDArray</code>.
028     * @author      David Jordan (as Java Editor of the Object Data Management Group)
029     * @version ODMG 3.0
030     */
031    // @see java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException
032    
033    public interface DArray extends org.odmg.DCollection, java.util.List
034    {
035        /**
036         * Resize the array to have <code>newSize</code> elements.
037         * @param   newSize The new size of the array.
038         */
039        public void resize(int newSize);
040    }