1 /* 2 * Copyright 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 package org.apache.axis.wsdl.gen; 17 18 import java.io.IOException; 19 20 /** 21 * This is the interface for all writers. All writers, very simply, must 22 * support a write method. 23 * <p/> 24 * Writer and WriterFactory are part of the Writer framework. Folks who want 25 * to use the emitter to generate stuff from WSDL should do 3 things: 26 * 1. Write implementations of the Writer interface, one each for PortType, 27 * Binding, Service, and Type. These implementations generate the stuff 28 * for each of these WSDL types. 29 * 2. Write an implementation of the WriterFactory interface that returns 30 * instantiations of these Writer implementations as appropriate. 31 * 3. Implement a class with a main method (like Wsdl2java) that instantiates 32 * an emitter and passes it the WriterFactory implementation 33 */ 34 public interface Generator { 35 36 /** 37 * Generate something. 38 * 39 * @throws IOException 40 */ 41 public void generate() throws IOException; 42 } 43