com.rubecula.darwin.domain.world
Class OrganismFactory

java.lang.Object
  com.rubecula.darwin.domain.world.OrganismFactory

public final class OrganismFactory
extends java.lang.Object

Factory Class to create Organism objects. Applications can't change this class (it is final) but they can override the methods which call these methods.

Author:

Robin Hillyard

Method Summary

static Organism	makeOrganism(java.lang.Class<? extends Organism> clazz, Nuclear nuclear, Population population, java.lang.String identifier)
static Organism	makeOrganism(Nuclear nuclear, Colony colony, java.lang.String identifier) Factory method for a new Organism.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

makeOrganism

public static Organism makeOrganism(java.lang.Class<? extends Organism> clazz,
                                    Nuclear nuclear,
                                    Population population,
                                    java.lang.String identifier)

Parameters:

clazz - the class of Organism to instantiate, which must have a constructor of form Organism(Nuclear,Population,String).

nuclear - the genetic information for the new organism

population - the population to which the new organism will belong

identifier - an identifier for the new organism

Returns:

a newly constructed Organism. TEST

makeOrganism

public static Organism makeOrganism(Nuclear nuclear,
                                    Colony colony,
                                    java.lang.String identifier)

Factory method for a new Organism.

Parameters:

nuclear - the genetic information for the new organism

colony - the population to which the new organism will belong

identifier - an identifier for the new organism

Returns:

either an Organism_Sexual or an Organism_Asexual, depending on whether nuclear is a Nuclear_Zygote or not.