org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.connector
Interface ConnectorProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

ConnectorProviderImpl, WebFrameworkConnectorProvider

public interface ConnectorProvider

Contract to be implemented by any object that can provide a Connector to another object.

Connectors are quite expensive to instantiate and obtain. Therefore this contract is generally used where you want to lazily provide a connector in a situation where it is not know if a connector is actually required (maybe due to caching etc.) until runtime.

Author:

Kevin Roast

Method Summary

Connector

provide(String endpoint) Builds a Connector object mounted against the given endpoint

Method Detail

provide

Connector provide(String endpoint)
                  throws ConnectorProviderException

Builds a Connector object mounted against the given endpoint

Parameters:

endpoint -

Returns:

the connector object

Throws:

ConnectorProviderException