1 /* 2 * Copyright 1999-2004 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.cocoon.components.flow; 17 18 /** 19 * ContinuationsDisposer declares the contract for the clean-up of specfic 20 * continuations. 21 * <p> 22 * Typically a {@link Interpreter} implementation that produces continuation 23 * objects which require proper clean up will implement this interface to get 24 * a call-back in the event of the ContinuationsManager deciding to invalidate 25 * a WebContinuation. 26 */ 27 public interface ContinuationsDisposer { 28 /** 29 * Disposes the passed continuation object. 30 * <p> 31 * This method is called from the ContinuationsManager in the event of 32 * the invalidation of a continuation upon the {@link ContinuationsDisposer} 33 * object passed during the creation of the WebContinuation. 34 * 35 * @param webContinuation the {@link WebContinuation} value representing the 36 * continuation object. 37 */ 38 public void disposeContinuation(WebContinuation webContinuation); 39 } 40