com.sapportals.portal.appintegrator
Interface ILayerFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractIntegratorComponent

public interface ILayerFactory

Version:

$Revision: #1 $.

Method Summary

IIntegrationLayer

getIntegrationLayerInstance(java.lang.String layerClassName) Loads and Returns an integration layer class from the perspective of this PAR.

Method Detail

getIntegrationLayerInstance

public IIntegrationLayer getIntegrationLayerInstance(java.lang.String layerClassName)
                                              throws java.lang.ClassNotFoundException,
                                                     java.lang.IllegalAccessException,
                                                     java.lang.InstantiationException

Loads and Returns an integration layer class from the perspective of this PAR. When the MainIntegratorComponent is used by other application integrator component that provide their own integration layers, the corresponding classes have to be loaded from the other PAR and not from this PAR classloader.

Parameters:

layerClassName - the class name of the IIntegrationLayer that is loaded from this class loader

Returns:

an integration layer instance for the given layerClassName.

Throws:

ClassNotFoundException, - see ClassNotFoundException

IllegalAccessException, - see IllegalAccessException

InstantiationException, - see InstantiationException

See Also:

IIntegrationLayer