Package org.oddjob.arooa

AROOA stands for A Rip Off Of Ant, and provides ant like configuration.

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Description

Interface Summary

ComponentProxyResolver
ComponentRestorer	An implementation is able to restore a component which will be used as a primary component in the ArooaFramework.
ConfigurationListener
ObjectFactory	Interface for a factory that is capable of creating an object.
RuntimeConfiguration

Class Summary

ArooaClassLoader	Used to load classes within ant with a different classpath from that used to start ant.
ArooaConstants	Constant values used in the Arooa Framework.
ArooaContext	Context information for the processing.
ArooaFactory	Builds an object from XML.
ArooaHandler	The common superclass for all SAX event handlers used to parse the configuration file.
ArooaRuntime	Wrapper class that holds the attributes of an element, its children, and any text within it.
Lifecycle	Various utility methods used in the lifecycle of a component.
Location	Stores the location of a piece of text within a file (file name, line number and column number).
PropertyHelper	Used for replacing properties in strings.
PropertyProxyResolver	Provide a PropertyProxy Object which will be used to set a property with it's valueOf method.
RootHandler	Handler for ant processing.
SimpleObjectFactory	A Simple object factory that uses property sets of name class pairs to create the objects.

Exception Summary

ArooaConfigException
ArooaException	An exception used when creation fails.

Package org.oddjob.arooa Description

AROOA stands for A Rip Off Of Ant, and provides ant like configuration.

An ArooaHandler is used to process the XML these are quite confusing. This table shows the sequence of events for a small document.

context1		context3
context2			context4
<doc>				h1.onStartChild("doc", context1) h2.onStartElement("doc" contex2)
	<fred x="y">			h2.onStartChild("fred", atts="x" context2) h3.onStartElement("fred", atts=x, context3)
		<jane a="b"/>		h3.onStartChild("jane", atts=a, context3) h4.onStartElement("jane", atts=a, context4) h4.onEndElement("jane", context4) h3.onEndChild("jane", context3)
	</fred>			h3.onEndElement("fred", context3) h2.onEndChild("fred", context2)
</doc>				h2.onEndElement("doc", context2) h1.onEndChild("doc", context1)

h1 is typically a MainHandler which just returns the next handler h2.

h2 is typically a DocumentStartHandler.

h3 and h4 are typically either a DefaultComponentHandler, NestedPropertyHandler, MappedPropertyHandler or NestedElementHandler depending on the methods the object being configured has.