1 package org.apache.turbine.modules; 2 3 /* 4 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 5 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 6 * distributed with this work for additional information 7 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 8 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 9 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 10 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 11 * 12 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 13 * 14 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 15 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 16 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 17 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 18 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 19 * under the License. 20 */ 21 22 /** 23 * A common interface for Screen, Layout and Navigation Loader 24 * 25 * @author <a href="mailto:hps@intermeta.de">Henning P. Schmiedehausen</a> 26 * @param <T> the specialized assembler type 27 */ 28 public interface Loader<T extends Assembler> 29 { 30 /** 31 * Get an Assembler. 32 * 33 * @param name name of the requested Assembler 34 * @return an Assembler 35 * @throws Exception generic exception 36 */ 37 T getAssembler(String name) throws Exception; 38 39 /** 40 * Get the size of a possibly configured cache 41 * 42 * @return the size of the cache in bytes 43 */ 44 int getCacheSize(); 45 }