001package org.apache.turbine.modules; 002 003/* 004 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 005 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 006 * distributed with this work for additional information 007 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 008 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 009 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 010 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 011 * 012 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 013 * 014 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 015 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 016 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 017 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 018 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 019 * under the License. 020 */ 021 022/** 023 * A common interface for Screen, Layout and Navigation Loader 024 * 025 * @author <a href="mailto:hps@intermeta.de">Henning P. Schmiedehausen</a> 026 * @param <T> the specialized assembler type 027 */ 028public interface Loader<T extends Assembler> 029{ 030 /** 031 * Get an Assembler. 032 * 033 * @param name name of the requested Assembler 034 * @return an Assembler 035 * @throws Exception generic exception 036 */ 037 T getAssembler(String name) throws Exception; 038 039 /** 040 * Get the size of a possibly configured cache 041 * 042 * @return the size of the cache in bytes 043 */ 044 int getCacheSize(); 045}