001package org.apache.turbine.services.assemblerbroker; 002 003 004/* 005 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 006 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 007 * distributed with this work for additional information 008 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 009 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 010 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 011 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 012 * 013 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 014 * 015 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 016 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 017 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 018 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 019 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 020 * under the License. 021 */ 022 023 024import org.apache.turbine.modules.Assembler; 025import org.apache.turbine.modules.Loader; 026import org.apache.turbine.services.Service; 027import org.apache.turbine.services.assemblerbroker.util.AssemblerFactory; 028import org.apache.turbine.util.TurbineException; 029 030/** 031 * An interface the Turbine Assembler service. 032 * See TurbineAssemblerBrokerService for more info. 033 * 034 * @author <a href="mailto:leon@opticode.co.za">Leon Messerschmidt</a> 035 * @author <a href="mailto:hps@intermeta.de">Henning P. Schmiedehausen</a> 036 * @version $Id$ 037 */ 038public interface AssemblerBrokerService 039 extends Service 040{ 041 /** Name of the Service */ 042 String SERVICE_NAME = "AssemblerBrokerService"; 043 044 /** 045 * Register an AssemblerFactory class 046 * 047 * @param factory The factory object 048 * 049 * @param <T> the type of the assembler 050 * 051 */ 052 <T extends Assembler> void registerFactory(AssemblerFactory<T> factory); 053 054 /** 055 * Attempts to load an Assembler of a type with a given name 056 * 057 * @param type The Type of the Assembler 058 * @param name The Name of the Assembler 059 * 060 * @param <T> the type of the assembler 061 * 062 * @return An Assembler object for the requested name and type 063 * 064 * @throws TurbineException Something went wrong while looking for the Assembler 065 */ 066 <T extends Assembler> T getAssembler(Class<T> type, String name) throws TurbineException; 067 068 /** 069 * Get a Loader for the given assembler type 070 * 071 * @param type The Type of the Assembler 072 * 073 * @param <T> the type of the assembler 074 * 075 * @return A Loader instance for the requested type 076 */ 077 <T extends Assembler> Loader<T> getLoader(Class<T> type); 078}