org.jasig.portal
Class ChannelFactory

java.lang.Object
  org.jasig.portal.ChannelFactory

Deprecated. IChannel rendering code will be replaced with portlet specific rendering code in a future release

@Deprecated
public class ChannelFactory
extends Object

A factory class that produces IChannel instances. This class maintains a lazily-loaded, but permanent cache of channels that implement one of uPortal's multithreaded interfaces, IMultithreadedChannel or one of its variants.

Version:

$Revision: 19776 $

Author:

Peter Kharchenko

Constructor Summary

ChannelFactory()
Deprecated.

Method Summary

static IChannel	instantiateChannel(String className, String uid) Deprecated. Produce an IChannel based on a java class name.
static IChannel	instantiateLayoutChannel(IUserLayoutChannelDescription description, String sessionId) Deprecated. Construct channel instance based on a channel description object.
static IChannel	instantiateLayoutChannel(String channelSubscribeId, IUserLayoutManager ulm, String sessionId) Deprecated. Instantiate a channel from information supplied by the user layout manager.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ChannelFactory

public ChannelFactory()

Deprecated.

Method Detail

instantiateLayoutChannel

public static IChannel instantiateLayoutChannel(String channelSubscribeId,
                                                IUserLayoutManager ulm,
                                                String sessionId)
                                         throws PortalException

Deprecated.

Instantiate a channel from information supplied by the user layout manager.

Parameters:

channelSubscribeId - a String value

ulm - an IUserLayoutManager value

sessionId - a String HTTP session Id value

Returns:

an IChannel instance

Throws:

PortalException - if an error occurs

instantiateLayoutChannel

public static IChannel instantiateLayoutChannel(IUserLayoutChannelDescription description,
                                                String sessionId)
                                         throws PortalException

Deprecated.

Construct channel instance based on a channel description object.

Parameters:

description - an IUserLayoutChannelDescription value

sessionId - a String HTTP session Id value

Returns:

an IChannel value

Throws:

PortalException

instantiateChannel

public static IChannel instantiateChannel(String className,
                                          String uid)
                                   throws PortalException

Deprecated.

Produce an IChannel based on a java class name. If the java class specified implements a channel interface other than org.jasig.portal.IChannel, it will be wrapped by an appropriate adapter class that does implement IChannel.

Parameters:

className - the channel's java class name

uid - a unique ID for use with multithreaded channels

Returns:

an IChannel object

Throws:

PortalException