edu.washington.cs.supple.application
Class AbstractSuppleApplication

java.lang.Object
  edu.washington.cs.supple.application.AbstractSuppleApplication

All Implemented Interfaces:

SuppleApplication

Direct Known Subclasses:

Browser, SimpleApplication

public abstract class AbstractSuppleApplication

extends java.lang.Object

implements SuppleApplication

AbstractSuppleApplication provides default implementations of most SuppleApplication methods.

Author:

dbc1

Constructor Summary

AbstractSuppleApplication(java.lang.String id, java.lang.String displayName)
Constructor.

Method Summary

abstract SuppleApplicationSession	createSession() Factory method to create an application session.
java.lang.String	getDisplayName()
java.lang.String	getId()
void	shutdown() Applications receive this signal when the containing application server is about to shutdown.
void	start() SuppleApplications receive this signal when they are first created by the containing application server.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AbstractSuppleApplication

public AbstractSuppleApplication(java.lang.String id,
                                 java.lang.String displayName)

Constructor.

Method Detail

getDisplayName

public final java.lang.String getDisplayName()

Specified by:

getDisplayName in interface SuppleApplication

Returns:

the human readable name of the application

getId

public final java.lang.String getId()

Specified by:

getId in interface SuppleApplication

Returns:

the shortened name (identifier) for the application

createSession

public abstract SuppleApplicationSession createSession()

Description copied from interface: SuppleApplication

Factory method to create an application session.

Specified by:

createSession in interface SuppleApplication

Returns:

a new unique session

start

public void start()

Description copied from interface: SuppleApplication

SuppleApplications receive this signal when they are first created by the containing application server. Implementors can use this method to precreate objects and configuration that will be shared across application sessions.

Specified by:

start in interface SuppleApplication

shutdown

public void shutdown()

Description copied from interface: SuppleApplication

Applications receive this signal when the containing application server is about to shutdown. Implementors can use this method to dispose of shared resources or other cleanup tasks.

Specified by:

shutdown in interface SuppleApplication