View Javadoc

1   package org.apache.turbine.modules;
2   
3   
4   /*
5    * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
6    * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
7    * distributed with this work for additional information
8    * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
9    * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
10   * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
11   * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
12   *
13   *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
14   *
15   * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
16   * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
17   * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
18   * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
19   * specific language governing permissions and limitations
20   * under the License.
21   */
22  
23  /**
24   * A common interface for Screen, Layout and Navigation Loader
25   *
26   * @author <a href="mailto:hps@intermeta.de">Henning P. Schmiedehausen</a>
27   * @param <T> the specialized assembler type
28   */
29  public interface Loader<T extends Assembler>
30  {
31      /**
32       * Get an Assembler.
33       *
34       * @param name name of the requested Assembler
35       * @return an Assembler
36       * @throws Exception generic exception
37       */
38      T getAssembler(String name) throws Exception;
39  
40      /**
41       * Get the size of a possibly configured cache
42       *
43       * @return the size of the cache in bytes
44       */
45      int getCacheSize();
46  }