container/modules/cluster/src/share/org/apache/catalina/cluster/ClusterDeployer.java

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package org.apache.catalina.cluster;

/**
 * A <b>ClusterDeployer</b> interface allows to plug in and out the
 * different deployment implementations
 *
 * @author Filip Hanik
 * @version $Revision$, $Date$
 */
import org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;

public interface ClusterDeployer extends MessageListener {
    /**
     * Returns the cluster the cluster deployer is associated with
     * @return CatalinaCluster
     */
    public CatalinaCluster getCluster();

    /**
     * Associates the cluster deployer with a cluster
     * @param cluster CatalinaCluster
     */
    public void setCluster(CatalinaCluster cluster);

    /**
     * Descriptive information about this component implementation.
     */
    public String info = "ClusterDeployer/1.0";
    /**
     * Start the cluster deployer, the owning container will invoke this
     * @throws Exception - if failure to start cluster
     */
    public void start() throws Exception;

    /**
     * Stops the cluster deployer, the owning container will invoke this
     * @throws LifecycleException
     */
    public void stop() throws LifecycleException;

    /**
     * Sets the deployer for this cluster deployer to use.
     * @param deployer Deployer
     */
    // FIXME
    //public void setDeployer(Deployer deployer);

    /**
     * Install a new web application, whose web application archive is at the
     * specified URL, into this container and all the other
     * members of the cluster with the specified context path.
     * A context path of "" (the empty string) should be used for the root
     * application for this container.  Otherwise, the context path must
     * start with a slash.
     * <p>
     * If this application is successfully installed locally, 
     * a ContainerEvent of type
     * <code>INSTALL_EVENT</code> will be sent to all registered listeners,
     * with the newly created <code>Context</code> as an argument.
     *
     * @param contextPath The context path to which this application should
     *  be installed (must be unique)
     * @param war A URL of type "jar:" that points to a WAR file, or type
     *  "file:" that points to an unpacked directory structure containing
     *  the web application to be installed
     *
     * @exception IllegalArgumentException if the specified context path
     *  is malformed (it must be "" or start with a slash)
     * @exception IllegalStateException if the specified context path
     *  is already attached to an existing web application
     * @exception IOException if an input/output error was encountered
     *  during installation
     */
    public void install(String contextPath, URL war) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Remove an existing web application, attached to the specified context
     * path.  If this application is successfully removed, a
     * ContainerEvent of type <code>REMOVE_EVENT</code> will be sent to all
     * registered listeners, with the removed <code>Context</code> as
     * an argument. Deletes the web application war file and/or directory
     * if they exist in the Host's appBase.
     *
     * @param contextPath The context path of the application to be removed
     * @param undeploy boolean flag to remove web application from server
     *
     * @exception IllegalArgumentException if the specified context path
     *  is malformed (it must be "" or start with a slash)
     * @exception IllegalArgumentException if the specified context path does
     *  not identify a currently installed web application
     * @exception IOException if an input/output error occurs during
     *  removal
     */
    public void remove(String contextPath, boolean undeploy) throws IOException;
}