01: /*
02: * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
03: * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
04: * distributed with this work for additional information
05: * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
06: * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
07: * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
08: * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
09: *
10: * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
11: *
12: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
13: * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
14: * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
15: * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
16: * specific language governing permissions and limitations
17: * under the License.
18: *
19: */
20: package org.apache.mina.statemachine.event;
21:
22: import java.lang.reflect.Method;
23:
24: import org.apache.mina.statemachine.StateMachineProxyFactory;
25: import org.apache.mina.statemachine.context.StateContext;
26:
27: /**
28: * Used by {@link StateMachineProxyFactory} to create {@link Event} objects when
29: * methods are invoked on the proxy.
30: *
31: * @author The Apache MINA Project (dev@mina.apache.org)
32: * @version $Rev: 586090 $, $Date: 2007-10-18 13:12:08 -0600 (Thu, 18 Oct 2007) $
33: */
34: public interface EventFactory {
35: /**
36: * Creates a new {@link Event} from the specified method and method
37: * arguments.
38: *
39: * @param context the current {@link StateContext}.
40: * @param method the method being invoked.
41: * @param args the method arguments.
42: * @return the {@link Event} object.
43: */
44: Event create(StateContext context, Method method, Object[] arguments);
45: }
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