com.xenonsoft.bridgetown.aop
Interface IMethodInterceptor

All Known Implementing Classes:

AfterAdviceAdaptor, BeforeAdviceAdaptor, DebugInterceptor, SimpleJDBCTransactionInterceptor, ThrowsExceptionAdviceAdaptor, ThrowsRemoteExceptionAdviceAdaptor, TransactionMethodInterceptor

public interface IMethodInterceptor

A contract interface for a method interceptor. The interception point where the application can weave a specialised behaviour before and after the target aspect.

Version:

$Id: IMethodInterceptor.java,v 1.2 2004/09/29 03:26:00 peter_pilgrim Exp $

Author:

peterp, 20-Sep-2004

Method Summary

java.lang.Object

invocation(IInterceptionContext context) Invocation method that is a called by the Aspect Oriented framework implementation.

Method Detail

invocation

public java.lang.Object invocation(IInterceptionContext context)
                            throws java.lang.Throwable

Invocation method that is a called by the Aspect Oriented framework implementation.

The AOP weaver implementation supplies a context IInterceptionContext so that application writer can examine the pointcut information and most importantly invoke the target method.

Parameters:

context - the interception context

Returns:

the object returned by the target aspect. A void Java method returns null in most AOP weaver implementations.

Throws:

a - weaved method can in theory raise any Java exception or not raise it.

java.lang.Throwable