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.apples; 17 18 19 /** 20 * AppleController declares the main processing interfaces for the stateful 21 * controller objects. 22 * <p> 23 * Implementations are advised to implement Avalon lifecycle interfaces. 24 */ 25 public interface AppleController { 26 27 /** 28 * Allows the AppleController implementation to make some business decissions 29 * in a given web application flow. 30 * <p> 31 * Typically those decissions will be based upon what it can find inside the 32 * passed {@link AppleRequest} and result into setting specific aspects of the 33 * {@link AppleResponse} 34 */ 35 void process(AppleRequest req, AppleResponse res) throws Exception; 36 37 38 } 39