com.bea.netuix.application.communities.invitations.spi
Interface CommunityInviter

All Superinterfaces

Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

EmailInviter, NotificationInviter

public interface CommunityInviter
extends Serializable

SPI interface that can be implemented to provide concrete Communities invitation facilities for a specific messaging communications method such as email, IM, notifications or any other channel that an application needs.

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Method Summary

void	destroy() Allows InvitationValidationTextGenerator implementations the opportunity to release any resources obtained during init or to perform any necessary cleanup operations.
void	init(InvitationDetails details) Allows CommunityInviter implementations the opportunity to perform any necessary initialization operations such as obtaining necessary resources such as database connections or loading file contents.
void	sendInvitations(InviteeIterator invitees) Sends individual invitations to the set of Invitees contained within the input InviteeIterator, according to the details for the invitation as contained in the input InvitationDetails argument.

Method Detail

init

void init(InvitationDetails details)
          throws InviteException

Allows CommunityInviter implementations the opportunity to perform any necessary initialization operations such as obtaining necessary resources such as database connections or loading file contents.

Parameters

details - the specific details of the invitation

Throws

InviteException

sendInvitations

void sendInvitations(InviteeIterator invitees)
                     throws InviteException

Sends individual invitations to the set of Invitees contained within the input InviteeIterator, according to the details for the invitation as contained in the input InvitationDetails argument.

Parameters

invitees - an iterator containing all invitees to invite

Throws

InviteException

destroy

void destroy()

Allows InvitationValidationTextGenerator implementations the opportunity to release any resources obtained during init or to perform any necessary cleanup operations.