1 /*** 2 * Fractal API 3 * Copyright (C) 2001-2002 France Telecom, INRIA 4 * 5 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 6 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public 7 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either 8 * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 9 * 10 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 11 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 12 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 13 * Lesser General Public License for more details. 14 * 15 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 16 * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software 17 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA 18 * 19 * Contact: fractal@objectweb.org 20 * 21 * Authors: Eric Bruneton, Thierry Coupaye, Pascal Dechamboux, Romain Lenglet, 22 * Philippe Merle, Jean-Bernard Stefani. 23 */ 24 25 package org.objectweb.fractal.api.control; 26 27 /** 28 * A component interface to control the attributes of the component to which it 29 * belongs. More precisely this interface denotes the component interfaces that 30 * can control component attributes: a component interface whose Java type 31 * is a Java interface that extends this Java interface is indeed considered as 32 * an interface to control the attributes of the component to which it belongs. 33 * Such interfaces <i>must</i> only contain getter and setter methods, such 34 * as <tt>int getX (); void setX (int x)</tt>, <tt>double getSize (); void 35 * setSize (double x)</tt>, and so on. These methods should only be used to 36 * configure "primitive" values such as integers or strings: they must not be 37 * used to configure bindings (this is the role of the {@link BindingController} 38 * interface). For example, they can be used to configure the size of a cache 39 * component, the load factor of a hashtable component, the label or color of a 40 * button component... 41 */ 42 43 public interface AttributeController { 44 } 45