| /******************************************************************************* |
| * Copyright (c) 2005 IBM Corporation and others. |
| * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials |
| * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 |
| * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html |
| * |
| * Contributors: |
| * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation |
| *******************************************************************************/ |
| package org.eclipse.ui.browser; |
| |
| import org.eclipse.ui.browser.IWebBrowser; |
| /** |
| * Implementators of <code>org.eclipse.ui.browser.browsers</code> extension |
| * points must provide an implementation of this abstract class. |
| * |
| * @since 3.1 |
| */ |
| public abstract class BrowserFactory { |
| /** |
| * Checks whether the factory can work on the user system. |
| * |
| * @return <code>false</code> if the factory can work on this system; for |
| * example the required native browser required by browser adapters that |
| * it creates is not installed, or <code>true</code> otherwise |
| */ |
| public boolean isAvailable() { |
| return true; |
| } |
| |
| /** |
| * Obtains a new instance of a web browser. |
| * |
| * @param id the browser id |
| * @param location the browser location |
| * @param parameters the browser parameters |
| * @return an instance of IWebBrowser |
| */ |
| public abstract IWebBrowser createBrowser(String id, String location, String parameters); |
| } |
