1 /* 2 * Copyright 2002,2004 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 package org.apache.commons.jelly; 18 19 /** 20 * <p><code>Script</code> represents a Jelly script. 21 * A Script <b>must</b> be thread safe so care should be taken on the 22 * implementations of Scripts. However Tags are only used in a single thread 23 * (each thread will have create its own Tags for the Script it is running) 24 * so multi threading is not a concern for Tag developers.</p> 25 * 26 * @author <a HREF="mailto:jstrachan@apache.org">James Strachan</a> 27 * @version $Revision: 155420 $ 28 */ 29 public interface Script { 30 31 /** Called by the parser to allow a more efficient 32 * representation of the script to be used. 33 */ 34 public Script compile() throws JellyException; 35 36 /** Evaluates the body of a tag */ 37 public void run(JellyContext context, XMLOutput output) throws JellyTagException; 38 39 } 40