org.jscience.biology.taxonomy
Class SimpleTaxon

java.lang.Object
  org.jscience.biology.taxonomy.AbstractTaxon
      org.jscience.biology.taxonomy.SimpleTaxon

All Implemented Interfaces:

Taxon

Direct Known Subclasses:

ItisTaxon

public class SimpleTaxon
extends AbstractTaxon

A no-frills implementatation of Taxon.

A TaxonFactory implementation will probably wish to sub-class this and add package-private accessors for the parent and children fields.

Field Summary

protected java.util.Set	children
protected Taxon	parent

Constructor Summary

SimpleTaxon(java.lang.String scientificName, java.lang.String commonName)
Create a new instance with no parent, no children and given scientific and common names.

Method Summary

java.util.Set	getChildren() DOCUMENT ME!
Taxon	getParent() DOCUMENT ME!
boolean	isLeaf() DOCUMENT ME!
boolean	isRoot() DOCUMENT ME!

Methods inherited from class org.jscience.biology.taxonomy.AbstractTaxon

equals, getAppearance, getCommonName, getExtendedName, getExtinction, getScientificName, setAppearance, setCommonName, setExtinction, setScientificName, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

parent

protected Taxon parent

children

protected java.util.Set children

Constructor Detail

SimpleTaxon

public SimpleTaxon(java.lang.String scientificName,
                   java.lang.String commonName)

Create a new instance with no parent, no children and given scientific and common names.

Method Detail

getParent

public Taxon getParent()

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Returns:

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isRoot

public boolean isRoot()

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isLeaf

public boolean isLeaf()

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getChildren

public java.util.Set getChildren()

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Returns:

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