001package org.apache.turbine.modules; 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/** 024 * A common interface for Screen, Layout and Navigation Loader 025 * 026 * @author <a href="mailto:hps@intermeta.de">Henning P. Schmiedehausen</a> 027 * @param <T> the specialized assembler type 028 */ 029public interface Loader<T extends Assembler> 030{ 031 /** 032 * Get an Assembler. 033 * 034 * @param name name of the requested Assembler 035 * @return an Assembler 036 * @throws Exception generic exception 037 */ 038 T getAssembler(String name) throws Exception; 039 040 /** 041 * Get the size of a possibly configured cache 042 * 043 * @return the size of the cache in bytes 044 */ 045 int getCacheSize(); 046}