com.sap.netweaver.coll.shared.api.extension

Interface IExtensionPoint

All Superinterfaces:

IDisplayable

public interface IExtensionPoint

extends IDisplayable

Interface describing an extension point. An application processes defined extension points to add customer functionality. The customer functionality is implemented in an extension. An extension provider provides the extension with the required parameters values and exposes it to an extension processor, that collects and processes the extensions when the extension point is reached.

Method Summary

boolean	equals(Object obj) Checks two ExtensionPoint objects for equality.
int	hashCode() Returns the hash code value for this object.
boolean	isCategory(IExtensionPointCategory category) Returns true if this extension point belongs to a category.

Methods inherited from interface com.sap.netweaver.coll.shared.api.extension.IDisplayable

getDescription, getId, getName

Method Detail

isCategory

public boolean isCategory(IExtensionPointCategory category)

Returns true if this extension point belongs to a category.

Returns:

true if belongs to category.

equals

public boolean equals(Object obj)

Checks two ExtensionPoint objects for equality. Checks that obj's class is the same as this object's class and has the same name as this object.

Parameters:

obj - the object we are testing for equality with this object.

Returns:

true if obj is a ExtensionPoint, and has the same id as this ExtensionPoint object, false otherwise.

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Returns the hash code value for this object.

Returns:

a hash code value for this object.