[Foxtrot] API Changes

[M. Shreeve]

Mat - could you update the javadoc please?  Or anyone else who knows how
to do it.  :)

Cheers

Matt

> 
> OK, I've made a couple of changes to the APIs, which I'm afraid will no
> doubt annoy those wonderful testing people, but are designed to simplify
> things really (really!).
> 
> Firstly, I've got rid of the method displayWorkUnitType() in
> StatusDisplayer. None of the work units I've seen ever remembered to call
> it so hey :-). The replacement is a method in WorkUnit which returns a
> String describing what the work unit does; the client will then display
> this to the screen automatically, according to the log level (Interesting
> = when the type changes, All = whenever we get a work unit).
> 
> Secondly, I've been through Result and all the classes extending it, and
> standardized the order of the arguments such that "target" (the big main
> number we're trying to factorise) always comes before "number" (the
> subgoal). In quite a number of places these figures were getting swapped
> round, which was leading to some annoying debug messages on the server and
> at one point all SuccessfulResults being ignored.
> 
> Anything not clear, just ask!
> 
> --Alan
> 
> 
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