package de.fu.alp5.foreign.distributed;

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

/**
 * Provides methods for remote invocation.
 *
 * @author Konrad Reiche
 * @author David Bialik
 *
 */
public interface TextAnalyzerWorker extends Remote {

    /**
     * Initializes the TextAnalyzerWorker with the number of Threads, its access
     * index and the remote host of the TextAnalyzer object in order to exchange
     * new foreign words.
     */
    void initialize(int numberOfThread, int accessIndex, String remoteHost)
            throws RemoteException;

    /**
     * Starts analyzing.
     */
    void analyze() throws RemoteException;

}