1 /* 2 * Copyright 1999,2005 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 18 package org.apache.xmlrpc; 19 20 import java.util.Vector; 21 22 /** 23 * The XML-RPC server uses this interface to call a method of an RPC handler. 24 * This should be implemented by any class that wants to directly take control 25 * when it is called over RPC. Classes not implementing this interface will be 26 * wrapped into an Invoker object that tries to find the matching method 27 * for an XML-RPC request. 28 * 29 * @author <a HREF="mailto:hannes@apache.org">Hannes Wallnoefer</a> 30 * @version $Id: XmlRpcHandler.java,v 1.3 2005/04/22 10:25:57 hgomez Exp $ 31 */ 32 public interface XmlRpcHandler 33 { 34 /** 35 * Return the result, or throw an Exception if something went wrong. 36 */ 37 public Object execute (String method, Vector params) 38 throws Exception; 39 } 40