1 /* 2 * Copyright 2000-2001,2004 The Apache Software Foundation. 3 * 4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 7 * 8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 9 * 10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 14 * limitations under the License. 15 */ 16 /* 17 * ViewProcessor.java 18 * 19 * Created on January 27, 2003, 5:18 PM 20 */ 21 package org.apache.jetspeed.portal.portlets.viewprocessor; 22 23 import org.apache.jetspeed.portal.Portlet; 24 import org.apache.jetspeed.portal.PortletException; 25 import org.apache.jetspeed.portal.portlets.*; 26 27 /*** 28 * Interface that defines a ViewProcessor. This is what the 29 * GenericMVCPortlet uses via the ViewProcessorFactory to 30 * do the template processing portion of the MVC design pattern. 31 * 32 * @author tkuebler 33 * @version 1.0 34 * @stereotype plug-in point 35 */ 36 public interface ViewProcessor 37 { 38 39 /*** 40 * Process the template passed in the context 41 * (context.get("template")). Invoked by the GenericMVCPortlet 42 * after action handling to process the template type 43 * in question. 44 */ 45 void init(Portlet portlet) 46 throws PortletException; 47 48 Object processView(GenericMVCContext context); 49 }