Applitude Writer's Guide

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Applitude Writer's Guide
$Id: appw.wml,v 1.1 2000/08/17 12:56:45 tjl Exp $

  Tuomas Lukka 

 
 
 
 







Applitudes are the preferred way of including more functionality into
GZigZag. This document explains how they are written.



Introduction

	
	An applitude is basically a view and related actions.

ZZModule

	
	The ZZModule abstract class provides the basic mechanism for
	including Java code into GZigZag without having to modify and/or 
	recompile GZigZag. GZigZag uses the Java reflection API to connect
	to new modules.

	

	The ZZModule architecture is slightly different than one might
	expect: instead of directly inheriting from the class, 
	modules use a static member which is a ZZModule: for example,

public class TextCloud implements ... {
	...
	static public ZZModule module = new ZZModule() {
		public void action(String id, ...) {
			... execute action id
		}
		public ZOb newZOb(String id) {
			... return a new ZOb instance with the given
			    name
		}
	};
}



 
 


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