Application: gvSIG desktop

/* gvSIG. Sistema de Informaci?n Geogr?fica de la Generalitat Valenciana

 *

 * Copyright (C) 2007 IVER T.I. and Generalitat Valenciana.

 *

 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2

 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

 *

 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

 * GNU General Public License for more details.

 *

 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307,USA.

 */

package org.gvsig.gui.beans.panelGroup.loaders;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import org.gvsig.gui.beans.panelGroup.exceptions.ListCouldntLoadPanelException;

import org.gvsig.gui.beans.panelGroup.panels.AbstractPanel;

import org.gvsig.gui.beans.panelGroup.panels.IPanel;

/**

 * <p>Interface for all loaders which return an array of {@link AbstractPanel AbstractPanel}

 *  registered as an {@link ExtensionPoint ExtensionPoint}.</p>

 *

 * @version 15/10/2007

 * @author Pablo Piqueras Bartolom? (pablo.piqueras@iver.es)

 */

public interface IPanelGroupLoader {

        /**

         * <p>Loads and returns all <code>AbstractPanel</code> registered as an {@link ExtensionPoint ExtensionPoint}</p>

         *

         * @param panels array with the panels or <code>null</code> if hasn't been registered any in that extension point, or that extension point didn't exit

         *

         * @throws Exception last exception produced loading the panels

         */

        public abstract void loadPanels(ArrayList<IPanel> panels) throws ListCouldntLoadPanelException;

}