001    /**
002     * Copyright 2005-2011 The Kuali Foundation
003     *
004     * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005     * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006     * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007     *
008     * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
009     *
010     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011     * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
012     * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
013     * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
014     * limitations under the License.
015     */
016    package org.kuali.rice.kew.plugin;
017    
018    import java.util.List;
019    
020    import org.kuali.rice.core.api.resourceloader.ResourceLoader;
021    import org.kuali.rice.core.api.resourceloader.ResourceLoader;
022    
023    /**
024     * Maintains a registry of Plugins and allows for loading of resources from those plugins.  It is
025     * up to the PluginRegistry implementation to determine the resource loading strategy if it contains
026     * more than a single plugin.
027     * 
028     * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
029     */
030    public interface PluginRegistry extends ResourceLoader {
031        
032            public List<PluginEnvironment> getPluginEnvironments();
033            
034            public void addPluginEnvironment(PluginEnvironment pluginEnvironment);
035            
036            public PluginEnvironment removePluginEnvironment(String pluginName);
037            
038            public PluginEnvironment getPluginEnvironment(String pluginName);
039        
040    }