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31 * <p>A Producer is a set of tasks, scripted in xml. Producers allow
32 * mir installations to have their own actions that can be called for
33 * instance when a new article is posted. Originally producers were
34 * mostly used to generate pages, but they are used for a lot of
35 * other tasks such as pulling rss feeds for the global wire on
38 * <p>Producers can be easily added and configured through the
39 * producers.xml file.</p>
41 * <p>In the admin web interface, producers appear, for example, on
42 * the admin->"Generate manually"->"advanced page": (as Tasks)</p>
44 * <p>Architecture: a "poducer" tag in the producers.xml file defines
45 * a small program. This program (or script) may contain constructs
46 * such as if, loop, and variables... The program is parsed into a
47 * tree of ProducerNodes. The root of this tree is defined in a
48 * NodedProducer (which is the only class that currently implements
49 * the Producer interface). When the Producer is executed, the
50 * "produce" methods of each node are recursively called, effectively
51 * executing the program as it was scripted</p>
53 public interface Producer {
55 * Execute the producer
57 public boolean execute(ProductionContext aContext) throws ProducerFailure, ProducerExc;
60 * Abort the execution of the producer. Will be called from a different
61 * thread and implementations should take this into account.
63 public void abort(ProductionContext aContext);