org.jboss.portal.theme.render.renderer
Interface WindowRenderer

All Superinterfaces:
ObjectRenderer
All Known Implementing Classes:
DivWindowRenderer, DynaWindowRenderer, EmptyWindowRenderer

public interface WindowRenderer
extends ObjectRenderer

A window renderer is responsible for the creation of the markup of each portlet window in a portal page region.

A Portlet window is the frame (the container) around the markup gernerated by the Portlet. It includes things like the title, and the portlet mode and portlet window state information. The window renderer is assumed to delegate to the DecorationRenderer to generate the title and mode and state markup, and to the PortletRenderer to render the markup produced by the portlet. Note that the renderer do not call the portlet container to execute the doView doEdit etc. method. The renderer is only responsible for placing the created markup inside the page, and creating the necessary markup around it.

Version:
$LastChangedRevision: 8784 $, $LastChangedDate: 2007-10-28 01:01:46 +0200 (Sun, 28 Oct 2007) $
Author:
PortalRenderSet, RegionRenderer, DecorationRenderer, PortletRenderer

Method Summary
 void render(RendererContext rendererContext, WindowRendererContext wrc)
          Render the markup of a portlet window.
 
Methods inherited from interface org.jboss.portal.theme.render.ObjectRenderer
endContext, startContext
 

Method Detail

render

void render(RendererContext rendererContext,
            WindowRendererContext wrc)
            throws RenderException
Render the markup of a portlet window.

Parameters:
rendererContext - the state holder to provide information about the region, it's portlets, and the render set, which allows access to the other renderer interfaces of the render set.
Throws:
RenderException
See Also:
RegionRenderer.renderBody(org.jboss.portal.theme.render.RendererContext, org.jboss.portal.theme.render.renderer.RegionRendererContext), PortletRenderer.render(org.jboss.portal.theme.render.RendererContext, org.jboss.portal.theme.render.renderer.PortletRendererContext), DecorationRenderer.render(org.jboss.portal.theme.render.RendererContext, org.jboss.portal.theme.render.renderer.DecorationRendererContext), WindowContext, WindowResult