001/* 002 * GWTEventService 003 * Copyright (c) 2011 and beyond, strawbill UG (haftungsbeschr?nkt) 004 * 005 * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 006 * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 007 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of 008 * the License, or (at your option) any later version. 009 * Other licensing for GWTEventService may also be possible on request. 010 * Please view the license.txt of the project for more information. 011 * 012 * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 013 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 014 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 015 * Lesser General Public License for more details. 016 * 017 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 018 * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free 019 * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 020 * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. 021 */ 022package de.novanic.eventservice.client.event.listener; 023 024import de.novanic.eventservice.client.event.Event; 025 026/** 027 * A RemoteEventListener should be used to process events on client side. The apply method ({@link RemoteEventListener#apply(de.novanic.eventservice.client.event.Event)}) 028 * should check the incoming event and call another method of the extending interface of RemoteEventListener. 029 * For example the extending interface of RemoteEventListener is "UserListListener" and The incoming event "UserAddEvent". 030 * The apply method should call a method like "userAdded" and the implementation of the listener can handle the userAdded call. 031 * 032 * @author sstrohschein 033 * <br>Date: 06.06.2008 034 * <br>Time: 18:57:30 035 */ 036public interface RemoteEventListener 037{ 038 /** 039 * The apply method should recognize the incoming events and dispatch to a similar method of the extending interface. 040 * For example the extending interface of RemoteEventListener is "UserListListener" and The incoming event "UserAddEvent". 041 * The apply method should call a method like "userAdded" and the implementation of the listener can handle the userAdded call. 042 * @param anEvent event to process 043 */ 044 void apply(Event anEvent); 045}