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Central module for Tapestry, containing interfaces to the Java Servlet API and all core services and components.

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package org.apache.tapestry5.services;

import org.apache.tapestry5.ContentType;
import org.apache.tapestry5.MarkupWriter;

/**
 * Source for {@link org.apache.tapestry5.MarkupWriter} instances.
 */
public interface MarkupWriterFactory
{
    /**
     * Creates a markup writer for a particular content type.
     *
     * @param contentType type of content generated by the markup write; used to control the type of {@link
     *                    org.apache.tapestry5.dom.MarkupModel} used with the {@link org.apache.tapestry5.dom.Document}
     *                    the backs the markup writer.
     */
    MarkupWriter newMarkupWriter(ContentType contentType);

    /**
     * Creates a markup writer for a particular content type, configured for partial page rendering (i.e., for
     * a response to an Ajax request).
     *
     * @param contentType type of content generated by the markup write; used to control the type of {@link
     *                    org.apache.tapestry5.dom.MarkupModel} used with the {@link org.apache.tapestry5.dom.Document}
     *                    the backs the markup writer.
     */
    MarkupWriter newPartialMarkupWriter(ContentType contentType);

    /**
     * Obtains a markup writer that will render the content for the provided logical page name.
     *
     * @param pageName logical page name
     * @return writer configured for the page
     */
    MarkupWriter newMarkupWriter(String pageName);
}