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Hello All,
I was trying to undertand tomcat internals from its source code coz i need to implement the same on a grid. I started out with jsp compiler part of it and was stuck at one point. There is a java interface called Mangler under the package org.apache.jasper.compiler. I the Compiler java file under same package, it uses this interface..
Could anyone tell me what this Mangler file does? futher, in the Compiler java file , it uses the methods from this interafce directly? how can we use the interface method without implementing it?
Any help is greatly appreciated

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This comes down to 'interfaces' and is not Tomcat specific.
Interfaces can be used to define the behaviour of a class without knowing what the specific class is. Therefore 'Mangler' defines the methods that a 'Mangler' class must support, but as long as 'Compiler' knows a class behaves as a 'Mangler', it doesn't need to know anything else.
In 'Compiler' there is a method 'setMangler(Mangler mangler)' that would be used for another class to pass a class that implements the 'Mangler' interface to the 'Compiler' class. From this point on, there is a concrete implementation hiding behind the 'Mangler' interface declaration, but 'Compiler' doesn't care, it only needs the the class to behave like a 'Mangler'
If you want to see what could be hiding there, 'CommandLineCompiler' and 'JspCompiler' implement the 'Mangler' interface.
Dave
 
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