325N/A * Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 325N/A * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 325N/A * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 325N/A * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as 325N/A * published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this 325N/A * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided 325N/A * by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. 325N/A * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT 325N/A * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or 325N/A * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License 325N/A * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that 325N/A * accompanied this code). 325N/A * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version 325N/A * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 325N/A * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. 325N/A * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA 325N/A * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any 325N/A * Custom statistic type created for the Sun ONE Application Server. 325N/A * The goal is to be able to represent changing attribute values that are strings 325N/A * in the form of Statistics. Semantically, it is analogous to a {@link CountStatistic}, 325N/A * the only difference being in the value that is returned. Unlike a CountStatistic 325N/A * (which always is unidirectional), this Statistic type is not having any 325N/A * specified direction, simply because there is no natural order. An example 325N/A * of the values that an instance of this statistic type can assume is: A State 325N/A * Statistic which can have "CONNECTED, CLOSED, DISCONNECTED" as the permissible 325N/A * values and the current value can be any one of them (and them only). 325N/A * The permissible values are upto a particular implementation. 325N/A * Returns the String value of the statistic