AppleController.java

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package org.apache.cocoon.components.flow.apples;


/**
 * AppleController declares the main processing interfaces for the stateful 
 * controller objects.
 * <p>
 * Implementations are advised to implement Avalon lifecycle interfaces.
 */
public interface AppleController {

    /**
     * Allows the AppleController implementation to make some business decissions 
     * in a given web application flow. 
     * <p>
     * Typically those decissions will be based upon what it can find inside the 
     * passed {@link AppleRequest} and result into setting specific aspects of the
     * {@link AppleResponse}
     */
    void process(AppleRequest req, AppleResponse res) throws Exception;
    

}