org.glassfish.api.deployment
Interface ApplicationMetaDataProvider<T>

@Contract
public interface ApplicationMetaDataProvider<T>

Implementations of this interface are providing deployment application metadata

Author:

Jerome Dochez

Method Summary

MetaData	getMetaData() Returns the meta data assocated with this Deployer
T	load(DeploymentContext dc) Load the metadata associated with the deployment event

Method Detail

getMetaData

MetaData getMetaData()

Returns the meta data assocated with this Deployer

Returns:

the meta data for this Deployer

load

T load(DeploymentContext dc)
       throws java.io.IOException

Load the metadata associated with the deployment event

Parameters:

dc - the deployment context

Returns:

the loaded metadata

Throws:

java.io.IOException - when the underlying archive cannot be processed correctly