manages the access to- and the routing of- the data produced by various telescope devices It's responsibilities include the creation and managing of the relationships between monitor clients and providers The accessor maintains information about all of the monitor data aquisition activities at any time on the system
TrueSync® Plus software, the Starfish core synchronisation "engine" that runs on a PC, offers support for a variety of desktop applications, devices and online services Synchronization capability among each supported application, device or service is handled by the addition of an "accessor " For example, when you add the Outlook accessor, you can synchronize your Microsoft Outlook data with your other TrueSync clients
a method for extracting information from an object, usually named according to the variable being accessed, as in getData Accessors usually declared public so that the actual variables of the instance can be declared protected or private without losing a handle to that data see also mutator
A method or member function that provides a public interface to allow the "setting" or "getting" of an object's private instance variables or data members