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<title>Turbine Services</title>
<author email="criley@ekmail.com">Cameron Riley</author>
<author email="jvanzyl@apache.org">Jason van Zyl</author>
<author email="jon@latchkey.com">Jon S. Stevens</author>
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<p>
Services are singletons within the Turbine Framework which have
pluggable implementation, and are capable of participating in the
Turbine startup and shutdown. As Services are Singletons, there is
only one instance of each service in the system. Memory or connections
are allocated once only and the internal state is common to all
requesting clients. Services can access ServletConfig at system
startup time to process relative paths and similar functionality, they
can also access RunData on the first Turbine doGet execution to get
the environment Turbine is operating under and with. Services can also
initialize themselves before they are requested by the client for the
first time. A Service that is never used will not allocate resources to
itself. A Service can also execute actions upon the system being
shutdown, such as closing open connections. The Singleton pattern also
allows for the Services to be accessed from anywhere within your code.
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<p>
The Life Cycle of a Service begins with the Services constructor. A Service
does not do much in it's contructor. Especially it should not allocate any
costly resources like large memory structure, DB or Network connections, etc.
The Service may be in the properties file, but unless a client using the
application needs the Service in question, there is no point starting the
Service.
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<p>
The services available with Turbine can be found in the
org.apache.turbine.services package. <strong>Please note that the
[TODO]'s below simply mean that these services need more complete
documentation, it does not mean that they are still waiting to be
implemented.</strong>
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<ul>
<li>
<a href="services/assemblerbroker-service.html">Assembler Broker Service</a>
<br/>
Is the Service which allows assemblers such as Screens, Actions, Layout and
Scheduled Jobs to be loaded.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/cache-service.html">Cache Service</a>
<br/>
Provides a persistant Object Storage mechanism within your application.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/castor-service.html">Castor Service</a>
<br/>
Castor is a OR tool that is supported by Turbine.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/db-service.html">DB Service</a>
<br/>
<b>[TO DO (PoolBrokerService)]</b> Is a common front end to all database systems.
This service also provides the brokers for Connection Pooling and Database Map Objects.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/factory-service.html">Factory Service</a>
<br/>
A Service for the instantiation of objects with either the specified loaders or
default class loaders.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/freemarker-service.html">FreeMarker Service</a>
<br/>
The FreeMarker Service is the set of classes that process FreeMarker
files inside the Turbine Layout/Navigations and Screen structure.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/intake-service.html">Intake Service</a>
<br/>
A service that provides input validation along with a standard
parameter naming framework.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/jsp-service.html">JSP Service</a>
<br/>
The JSP Service is the set of classes that process JSP files inside the
Turbine Layout/Navigations and Screen structure.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/localization-service.html">Localization Service</a>
<br/>
The single point of access to all localization resources.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/logging-service.html">Logging Service</a>
<br/>
The default Loggin implementation for Turbine, logging can be either
through an explicite getLogger() method or by standard printing methods
such as info or debug.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/mimetype-service.html">MimeType Service</a>
<br/>
The service maintains the mappings between MIME types and corresponding file
name extensions as well as between locales and character encoding.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/naming-service.html">Naming Service</a>
<br/>
Provides JNDI naming contexts.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/pool-service.html">Pool Service</a>
<br/>
A service for the pooling of instantiated Objects, allowing for the recycling
and disposal of Objects in the pool.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/pull-service.html">Pull Service</a>
<br/>
Manages the creation of application tools that are available to all templates
in a Turbine application. The tools can have global scope, request scope, session
scope or persistant scope within your application.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/resources-service.html">Resources Service</a>
<br/>
<b>[TO DO (Configuration)]</b> The Resources Service is the set of classes and
the functionality that allows for the reading and acccessing data
from within properties files.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/rundata-service.html">RunData Service</a>
<br/>
Is the Service which manages the higher level operations surrounding
requests and responses.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/scheduler-service.html">Scheduler Service</a>
<br/>
This service manages the schedule queue giving Cron like functionality.
The ScheduledJob can be stored in a database or a properties file.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/security-service.html">Security Service</a>
<br/>
<b>[TO DO]</b> A service for the management of Users, Groups, Roles and Permissions
in the system, allowing for those Objects to interact with either
Database or LDAP backends. The service also allows for the security to be managed
without a backend.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/servlet-service.html">Servlet Service</a>
<br/>
Encapsulates the information provided by the ServletContext API,
and makes it available from anywhere in the code.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/template-service.html">Template Service</a>
<br/>
<b>[TO DO]</b> The Service for the mapping of templates to their
screens and actions.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/uniqueid-service.html">Unique ID Service</a>
<br/>
Allows for the creation of Context unique and pseudo random identifiers.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/upload-service.html">Upload Service</a>
<br/>
This service manages multipart/form-data POST requests, storing them
temporarily in memory or locally. The resultant Objects can be manipulated through
a FileItem Object.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/velocity-service.html">Velocity Service</a>
<br/>
<b>[TO DO]</b> The service for the processing of Velocity Templates from within
the Turbine Layout/Navigations and Screen structure.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/webmacro-service.html">WebMacro Service</a>
<br/>
<b>[TO DO]</b> The service for the processing of WebMacro Templates from within
Turbine Layout/Navigations and Screen structure.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/xmlrpc-service.html">XML-RPC Service</a>
<br/>
This service manages xml-rpc calls to a remote Server.
</li>
<li>
<a href="services/xslt-service.html">XSLT Service</a>
<br/>
The service which is used to transform XML with an XSLT stylesheet.
</li>
</ul>
<p>
For more information on the Services Package, view the package.html Package
Documentation in the Javadocs or in Turbine CVS.
</p>
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