Package net.sf.jguiraffe.locators

This package contains interfaces and classes for locating resources in a generic way.

The main interface defined in this package is Locator. A locator is a generic pointer to a resource. Concrete implementations of this interface support specific ways of obtaining a resource, e.g.

• from a URL
• form the file system
• from the class path
• from data kept in memory

By accessing resources through the Locator interface all these different variants can be handled transparently.

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Interface Summary

Interface	Description
Locator	Definition of the base Locator interface.

Class Summary

Class	Description
AbstractLocator	An adapter class for implementing concrete Locator classes.
AbstractStreamLocator	An abstract base class for Locator implementations that mainly operate on streams.
ByteArrayLocator	A specialized Locator implementation that provides access to data stored in memory as a byte array.
ClassPathLocator	A specific Locator implementation that can obtain resources from the class path.
FileLocator	A concrete Locator class that represents files.
LocatorConverter	A specialized Converter implementation dealing with Locator objects.
LocatorUtils	A helper class for locating resources.
LocatorWrapper	A wrapper implementation for locators.
URLLocator	A specialized Locator implementation that operates on URLs.

Exception Summary

Exception	Description
LocatorException	An exception class for reporting error conditions related to Locator objects.