public DefinitionsFactory(XmlDefinitionsSet xmlDefinitions) throws NoSuchDefinitionException 
{
    definitions = new HashMap();
      // First, resolve inheritance
    xmlDefinitions.resolveInheritances();
      // Walk thru xml set and copy each definitions.
    Iterator i = xmlDefinitions.getDefinitions().values().iterator();
    while( i.hasNext() )
      {
      XmlDefinition xmlDefinition = (XmlDefinition)i.next();
        putDefinition( new ComponentDefinition( xmlDefinition) );
      }  // end loop
}

Constructor. Create a factory initialized with definitions from XmlDefinitionsSet .

Parameters:

xmlDefinitions - Resolved definition from XmlDefinitionSet.

Throws:

NoSuchDefinitionException - If an error occurs while resolving inheritance

 public ComponentDefinition getDefinition(String name,
    ServletRequest request,
    ServletContext servletContext) throws NoSuchDefinitionException, DefinitionsFactoryException 
{
   return (ComponentDefinition)definitions.get(name);
}

Get a definition by its name.

 public  void putDefinition(ComponentDefinition definition) 
{
  definitions.put( definition.getName(), definition );
}

Put definition in set.

 public String toString() 
{
    return definitions.toString();
}

Return String representation.