| /* |
| * Copyright (c) 2007, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved. |
| * |
| * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); |
| * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. |
| * You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 |
| * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software |
| * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, |
| * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. |
| * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and |
| * limitations under the License. |
| * |
| */ |
| |
| package org.qi4j.bootstrap; |
| |
| /** |
| * ModuleAssemblies are configured by Assemblers. This |
| * is the interface you would implement in order to provide |
| * all configuration and additional metainfo that is needed |
| * to instantiate a Zest application. |
| */ |
| public interface Assembler |
| { |
| /** |
| * Assemblers receive a callback to the ModuleAssembly |
| * they are supposed to configure. They can use this |
| * to register objects, composites, services etc. and |
| * the additional metadata that may exist for these |
| * artifacts. |
| * <p> |
| * An Assembler may create new Modules by calling |
| * {@link org.qi4j.bootstrap.ModuleAssembly#layer()} and |
| * then {@link LayerAssembly#module(String)} (String)}. |
| * This allows an Assembler to bootstrap an entire Layer with |
| * more Modules. |
| * </p> |
| * @param module the Module to assemble |
| * |
| * @throws AssemblyException thrown if the assembler tries to do something illegal |
| */ |
| void assemble( ModuleAssembly module ) |
| throws AssemblyException; |
| } |