1 // Copyright 2004, 2005 The Apache Software Foundation 2 // 3 // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 4 // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 5 // You may obtain a copy of the License at 6 // 7 // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 8 // 9 // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 10 // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 11 // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 12 // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 13 // limitations under the License. 14 15 package org.apache.tapestry.engine; 16 17 import org.apache.tapestry.web.WebRequest; 18 19 /** 20 * Interface for an object that can create a {@link IMonitor}instance for a particular 21 * {@link org.apache.tapestry.request.RequestContext}. The engine expects there to be a monitor 22 * factory as application extension <code>org.apache.tapestry.monitor-factory</code>. If no such 23 * extension exists, then {@link org.apache.tapestry.engine.DefaultMonitorFactory}is used instead. 24 * 25 * @author Howard Lewis Ship 26 * @since 3.0 27 */ 28 public interface IMonitorFactory 29 { 30 /** 31 * Create a new {@link IMonitor}instance. Alternately, return a shared instance. This method 32 * may be invoked by multiple threads. 33 */ 34 35 public IMonitor createMonitor(WebRequest request); 36 }