com.artima.place
Interface Presentable

All Known Subinterfaces:

Place

All Known Implementing Classes:

URLFactory

public interface Presentable

A Jini service interface for services that may activate Links on behalf of users.

Method Summary

ServicePresenter	getServicePresenter() Gets the ServicePresenter for this Presentable service.
void	setServicePresenter(ServicePresenter presenter) Sets the ServicePresenter.

Method Detail

setServicePresenter

public void setServicePresenter(ServicePresenter presenter)

Sets the ServicePresenter. This method would usually be invoked by the client to pass in a the service presenter context object to the Presentable service, before attaching a service UI.

Parameters:

presenter - the ServicePresenter to which this service may wish to delegate link activations

getServicePresenter

public ServicePresenter getServicePresenter()

Gets the ServicePresenter for this Presentable service. This method will return the object passed to the setServicePresenter method in its most recent invocation. If the setServicePresenter method has not yet been invoked, this method will return the default ServicePresenter returned by the ServicePresenter.getDefault method.

This method could be called by a service UI for a Presentable service, when the service UI detects that the user wishes to activate a link. The service UI can delegate the actual activation of that link to the ServicePresenter returned by this method.

Returns:

the ServicePresenter to which this service may wish to delegate link activations