IEventProcessor.java

/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2004 Composent, Inc. and others. All rights reserved. This
 * program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of
 * the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution, and is
 * available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 * 
 * Contributors: Composent, Inc. - initial API and implementation
 ******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.ecf.core.util;

/**
 * Event processor for processing events in a sequence.  If the implementer of this interface
 * intends to prevent further processing for the given event, then it should return true
 * to prevent further processing.  It should return false to allow further processing of 
 * the given event to continue (e.g. in a chain of event processors)
 * 
 */
public interface IEventProcessor {
	/**
	 * Process given Event
	 * 
	 * @param event
	 *            the Event to process
	 * @return true if the event has been successfully processed and no further
	 *         processing should occur. False if the event should receive
	 *         further processing by another event processor (e.g. in a chain)
	 */
	public boolean processEvent(Event event);
}