1 // Copyright 2004, 2005 The Apache Software Foundation 2 // 3 // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 4 // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 5 // You may obtain a copy of the License at 6 // 7 // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 8 // 9 // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 10 // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 11 // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 12 // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 13 // limitations under the License. 14 15 package org.apache.tapestry; 16 17 /** 18 * Defines a page which may be referenced externally via a URL using the 19 * {@link org.apache.tapestry.engine.ExternalService}. External pages may be bookmarked via their 20 * URL for latter display. See the {@link org.apache.tapestry.link.ExternalLink}for details on how 21 * to invoke <tt>IExternalPage</tt>s. 22 * 23 * @see org.apache.tapestry.callback.ExternalCallback 24 * @see org.apache.tapestry.engine.ExternalService 25 * @author Howard Lewis Ship 26 * @author Malcolm Edgar 27 * @since 2.2 28 */ 29 30 public interface IExternalPage extends IPage 31 { 32 /** 33 * Initialize the external page with the given array of parameters and request cycle. 34 * <p> 35 * This method is invoked after {@link IPage#validate(IRequestCycle)}. 36 * 37 * @param parameters 38 * the array of listener parameters 39 * @param cycle 40 * current request cycle 41 */ 42 43 public void activateExternalPage(Object[] parameters, IRequestCycle cycle); 44 }