- tentatively installed a static getParameters() method

src/fr/inrialpes/exmo/align/impl/BasicAlignment.java

@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ public class BasicAlignment implements Alignment {
 	init( onto1, onto2, null );
     }
 
+    public static Parameters getParameters() {
+	return (Parameters)null;
+    }
+
     public int nbCells() {
 	int sum = 0;
 	for ( Enumeration e = hash1.elements(); e.hasMoreElements(); ) {

src/fr/inrialpes/exmo/align/impl/DistanceAlignment.java

@@ -40,10 +40,6 @@ import org.semanticweb.owl.align.AlignmentException;
 import org.semanticweb.owl.align.Cell;
 import org.semanticweb.owl.align.Parameters;
 
-import fr.inrialpes.exmo.align.impl.Similarity;
-import fr.inrialpes.exmo.align.impl.HungarianAlgorithm;
-import fr.inrialpes.exmo.align.impl.ConcatenatedIterator;
-
 /**
  *
  * @author Jrme Euzenat
@@ -96,6 +92,12 @@ public class DistanceAlignment extends OWLAPIAlignment implements AlignmentProce
 	extract( getType(), params );
     }
 
+    public static Parameters getParameters() {
+	Parameters p = new BasicParameters();
+	p.setParameter("type","11");
+	return p;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Prints the distance matrix
      */

src/fr/inrialpes/exmo/align/impl/method/StringDistAlignment.java

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ import org.semanticweb.owl.align.Parameters;
 
 import fr.inrialpes.exmo.align.impl.DistanceAlignment;
 import fr.inrialpes.exmo.align.impl.MatrixMeasure;
+import fr.inrialpes.exmo.align.impl.BasicParameters;
 
 /**
  * Represents an OWL ontology alignment. An ontology comprises a number of
@@ -117,4 +118,13 @@ public class StringDistAlignment extends DistanceAlignment implements AlignmentP
 	// Extract alignment
 	extract( type, params );
     }
+
+    public static Parameters getParameters() {
+	Parameters p = new BasicParameters();
+	p.setParameter("type","11");
+	p.setParameter("printMatrix",null);
+	p.setParameter("stringFunction","equalDistance");
+	return p;
+    }
+
 }

src/org/semanticweb/owl/align/AlignmentProcess.java

@@ -39,5 +39,17 @@ public interface AlignmentProcess extends Alignment
      */
     public void align( Alignment alignment, Parameters param ) throws AlignmentException;
 
+    /**
+     * Returns the parameters that the align() method is able to process.
+     * In spirit, this method does not need an instance so it should be
+     * implemented as a static. But this is not supported in interface
+     * declarations (it should!).
+     * This parameters set can be null if no parameters are interpreted or
+     * contains the list of entries accepted. These entries can be set and
+     * the Parameters passed to the align() method.
+     *
+     * public Parameters getParameters();
+     */
+
 }