001/* java.beans.Customizer 002 Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 01902110-1301 USA. 020 021Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024combination. 025 026As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039package java.beans; 040 041/** 042 ** You may explicitly provide a Customizer for your Bean 043 ** class, which allows you complete control of the editing 044 ** of the Bean.<P> 045 ** 046 ** A Customizer is meant to be embedded in an RAD tool, 047 ** and thus must be a descendant of <CODE>java.awt.Component</CODE>.<P> 048 ** 049 ** It must also have a constructor with no arguments. This 050 ** is the constructor that will be called by the RAD tool to 051 ** instantiate the Customizer.<P> 052 ** 053 ** Over its lifetime, an instance of a Customizer will only 054 ** customize one single Bean. A new instance of the 055 ** Customizer will be instantiated to edit any other Beans.<P> 056 ** 057 ** The Customizer is responsible for notifying its 058 ** PropertyChangeListeners of any changes that are made, 059 ** according to the rules of PropertyChangeListeners (i.e. 060 ** notify the clients <EM>after</EM> the property has 061 ** changed). 062 ** 063 ** @author John Keiser 064 ** @since JDK1.1 065 ** @version 1.1.0, 29 Jul 1998 066 ** @see java.beans.BeanDescriptor.getCustomizerClass() 067 **/ 068 069public interface Customizer { 070 /** Set the object to Customize. This will always be a 071 ** Bean that had a BeanDescriptor indicating this 072 ** Customizer. 073 ** @param bean the Bean to customize. 074 **/ 075 void setObject(Object bean); 076 077 /** Add a PropertyChangeListener. 078 ** @param l the PropertyChangeListener to add. 079 **/ 080 void addPropertyChangeListener(PropertyChangeListener l); 081 082 /** Remove a PropertyChangeListener. 083 ** @param l the PropertyChangeListener to remove. 084 **/ 085 void removePropertyChangeListener(PropertyChangeListener l); 086}