edu.uci.isr.yancees.plugin
Class AbstractPluginManager
java.lang.Object
edu.uci.isr.yancees.plugin.AbstractPluginManager
- All Implemented Interfaces:
- PluginManagerInterface
- Direct Known Subclasses:
- MOPluginManager, ProtocolPluginManager
public abstract class AbstractPluginManager
- extends java.lang.Object
- implements PluginManagerInterface
- Author:
- rsilvafi
class created at May 3, 2004
Keeps a list of all the factories (representing installed plug-ins) of the
system.
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object |
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait |
factoriesMap
protected java.util.HashMap factoriesMap
tagsMap
protected java.util.HashMap tagsMap
genericFactory
protected PluginFactoryInterface genericFactory
AbstractPluginManager
public AbstractPluginManager()
addFactory
public void addFactory(PluginFactoryInterface factory)
- Description copied from interface:
PluginManagerInterface
- Registers a new factory in the plug-in manager to process the set of tags.
The list of tags is collected in the PluginFactoryInterface
- Specified by:
addFactory
in interface PluginManagerInterface
- Parameters:
factory
- the factory instance
addUnknownTagFactory
public void addUnknownTagFactory(PluginFactoryInterface factory)
- Description copied from interface:
PluginManagerInterface
- Registers the generic factory that handles unknown tags in the
subscription process. This factory is used to implement the dynamic download
of plug-ins in case they are not currently installed.
- Specified by:
addUnknownTagFactory
in interface PluginManagerInterface
- Parameters:
factory
- the factory instance
removeFactory
public void removeFactory(PluginFactoryInterface factory)
- Description copied from interface:
PluginManagerInterface
- Registers a new factory in the plug-in manager
- Specified by:
removeFactory
in interface PluginManagerInterface
getFactoriesList
public PluginFactoryInterface[] getFactoriesList()
- Description copied from interface:
PluginManagerInterface
- Gets the list of all factories registered in the PluginManager
- Specified by:
getFactoriesList
in interface PluginManagerInterface
getRegisteredTags
public java.lang.String[] getRegisteredTags()
- Specified by:
getRegisteredTags
in interface PluginManagerInterface
- Returns:
- a list of all the supported tags in this plugin manager. In other
words, returs the list of tags registered for all plugins
installed.
isTagRegistered
public boolean isTagRegistered(java.lang.String tag)
- Specified by:
isTagRegistered
in interface PluginManagerInterface
- Parameters:
tag
- to be checked
- Returns:
- true if the tag is already registered, false otherwise.