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/* *************************************************************************
 
 IT Mill Toolkit 

 Development of Browser User Interfaces Made Easy

 Copyright (C) 2000-2006 IT Mill Ltd
 
 *************************************************************************

 This product is distributed under commercial license that can be found
 from the product package on license.pdf. Use of this product might 
 require purchasing a commercial license from IT Mill Ltd. For guidelines 
 on usage, see licensing-guidelines.html

 *************************************************************************
 
 For more information, contact:
 
 IT Mill Ltd                           phone: +358 2 4802 7180
 Ruukinkatu 2-4                        fax:   +358 2 4802 7181
 20540, Turku                          email:  info@itmill.com
 Finland                               company www: www.itmill.com
 
 Primary source for information and releases: www.itmill.com

 ********************************************************************** */

package com.itmill.toolkit.service;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.Collection;

import com.itmill.toolkit.Application;

/**
 * <code>ApplicationContext</code> provides information about the running
 * context of the application. Each context is shared by all applications that
 * are open for one user. In web-environment this corresponds to HttpSession.
 * 
 * @author IT Mill Ltd.
 * @version
 * @VERSION@
 * @since 3.1
 */
public interface ApplicationContext {

    /**
     * Returns application context base directory.
     * 
     * Typically an application is deployed in a such way that is has
     * application directory. For web applications this directory is the root
     * directory of the web applications. In some cases application might not
     * have application directory (for example web applications running inside
     * of war).
     * 
     * @return The application base directory
     */
    public File getBaseDirectory();

    /**
     * Gets the applications in this context.
     * 
     * Gets all applications in this context. Each application context contains
     * all applications that are open for one user.
     * 
     * @return Collection containing all applications in this context
     */
    public Collection getApplications();

    /**
     * Adds transaction listener to this context.
     * 
     * @param listener
     *                the listener to be added.
     * @see TransactionListener
     */
    public void addTransactionListener(TransactionListener listener);

    /**
     * Removes transaction listener from this context.
     * 
     * @param listener
     *                the listener to be removed.
     * @see TransactionListener
     */
    public void removeTransactionListener(TransactionListener listener);

    /**
     * Interface for listening the application transaction events.
     * Implementations of this interface can be used to listen all transactions
     * between the client and the application.
     * 
     */
    public interface TransactionListener {

        /**
         * Invoked at the beginning of every transaction.
         * 
         * @param application
         *                the Application object.
         * @param transactionData
         *                the Data identifying the transaction.
         */
        public void transactionStart(Application application,
                Object transactionData);

        /**
         * Invoked at the end of every transaction.
         * 
         * @param applcation
         *                the Application object.
         * @param transactionData
         *                the Data identifying the transaction.
         */
        public void transactionEnd(Application application,
                Object transactionData);

    }
}