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package org.apache.beehive.controls.api.assembly;
/**
* Control implementations may need to do build-time work on or impacted by
* their control client(s), such as side-effecting their client's deployment
* descriptors, or generating additional files that are implementation-
* specific.
*
* The build phase where this work is done is called assembly, and occurs
* at the granularity level of the J2EE module.
* The control author participates in this phase by authoring classes that
* implement the ControlAssembler interface, and associating such classes
* with control implementations. Instances of ControlAssembler are then
* called at assembly-time by build tools.
*/
public interface ControlAssembler
{
/**
* A ControlAssembler implementation's assemble method is called once
* per control assembler per module per assembly-time pass. The call
* passes a ControlAssemblyContext, from which information such as the
* list of client classes in the module that use the control can be
* obtained.
*/
void assemble(ControlAssemblyContext cac) throws ControlAssemblyException;
}