1 /*
2 * EL4J, the Extension Library for the J2EE, adds incremental enhancements to
3 * the spring framework, http://el4j.sf.net
4 * Copyright (C) 2005 by ELCA Informatique SA, Av. de la Harpe 22-24,
5 * 1000 Lausanne, Switzerland, http://www.elca.ch
6 *
7 * EL4J is published under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
8 * Version 2.1. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/
9 *
10 * This program 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
13 * GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
14 *
15 * For alternative licensing, please contact info@elca.ch
16 */
17
18 package ch.elca.el4j.core.contextpassing;
19
20 /**
21 * Implicit context passer interface.
22 * Please refer to the documentation of the
23 * remoting_and_interface_enrichment module more information on this.
24 *
25 * @svnLink $Revision: 3875 $;$Date: 2009-08-04 14:35:53 +0200 (Di, 04. Aug 2009) $;$Author: swismer $;$URL: https://el4j.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/el4j/branches/el4j_3_1/el4j/framework/modules/core/src/main/java/ch/elca/el4j/core/contextpassing/ImplicitContextPasser.java $
26 *
27 * @author Martin Zeltner (MZE)
28 */
29 public interface ImplicitContextPasser {
30 /**
31 * This method is called by the stub (e.g. ProxyBean) that makes a remote
32 * invocation to collect the implicitly passed context and add it to the
33 * invocation.
34 *
35 * @return The context that should be added to a method call.
36 */
37 public Object getImplicitlyPassedContext();
38
39 /**
40 * This method is called by the skeleton (e.g. ExporterBean) that receives a
41 * remote invocation to push the context to the bean.
42 *
43 * @param context
44 * The received context that should be pushed to the service.
45 */
46 public void pushImplicitlyPassedContext(Object context);
47 }