1 /*
2 * $Source$
3 * $Revision$
4 *
5 * Copyright (C) 2007 Tim Pizey
6 *
7 * Part of Melati (http://melati.org), a framework for the rapid
8 * development of clean, maintainable web applications.
9 *
10 * Melati is free software; Permission is granted to copy, distribute
11 * and/or modify this software under the terms either:
12 *
13 * a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
14 * Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
15 * any later version,
16 *
17 * or
18 *
19 * b) any version of the Melati Software License, as published
20 * at http://melati.org
21 *
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26 * GNU General Public License and visit http://melati.org to obtain the
27 * Melati Software License.
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29 * Feel free to contact the Developers of Melati (http://melati.org),
30 * if you would like to work out a different arrangement than the options
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32 * wide an audience as possible.
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34 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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38 *
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40 *
41 * Tim Pizey <timp At paneris.org>
42 * http://paneris.org/~timp
43 */
44
45 package org.melati.poem;
46
47 /**
48 * Methods an object must have to be treated as a <code>Tree</code>.
49 *
50 * @author timp
51 * @since 28 Jun 2007
52 *
53 */
54 public interface Treeable {
55
56 /**
57 * @return an Array of Treeable children
58 */
59 Treeable[] getChildren();
60
61 /**
62 * This should not return null.
63 * @return the name of the object, used as node label
64 */
65 String getName();
66
67 }