com.sun.sgs.profile
Interface ProfileCounter

All Known Subinterfaces:

AggregateProfileCounter, TaskProfileCounter

public interface ProfileCounter

A counter used in profiling. All counters have a name associated with them, and start at zero. Counters can only be incremented.

Profile counters are created with calls to ProfileConsumer.createCounter. A counter's name includes both the name supplied to createCounter and the value of ProfileConsumer.getName().

Method Summary

String	getName() Returns the name of this counter.
void	incrementCount() Increments the counter by 1.
void	incrementCount(long value) Increments the counter by the given non-negative value.

Method Detail

getName

String getName()

Returns the name of this counter.

Returns:

the counter's name

incrementCount

void incrementCount()

Increments the counter by 1.

incrementCount

void incrementCount(long value)

Increments the counter by the given non-negative value.

Parameters:

value - the amount to increment the counter

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if value is negative