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 * Copyright 1999,2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
 * 
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 * 
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package org.apache.jasper.compiler.tagplugin;

/**
 * This interface is to be implemented by the plugin author, to supply
 * an alternate implementation of the tag handlers.  It can be used to
 * specify the Java codes to be generated when a tag is invoked.
 *
 * An implementation of this interface must be registered in a file
 * named "tagPlugins.xml" under WEB-INF.
 */

public interface TagPlugin {

    /**
     * Generate codes for a custom tag.
     * @param ctxt a TagPluginContext for accessing Jasper functions
     */
    void doTag(TagPluginContext ctxt);
}

