[Jolo-develop] Adding getMapObjectType() method to MapObject

[Mike H. <mh...@le...>]

As Youngm and I further flesh out things such as serializing and
externalizing objects we decided the MapObject should have a method:

public short getMapObjectType()

That returns a short that identifies the type of the MapObject.  This will
be used in the communications protocol so when the server is sending new
object notification to the client the server only has to send 2 bytes
instead of a whole class name.  We will obviously have to develop a system
for translating class names into shorts and vice-versa but that should fit
well into the plug-ins idea.  We could basically make it so any
implementable MapObject is a plug-in and part of the definition of a plug-in
is a unique 2 byte identifier.  That would require some type of registration
service for plug-ins but IANA does this so why can't we? :)

heathm