Package com.ibm.portal.theme.plugin.impl

This package provides default implementations of the theme extension interfaces that may be sub-classed and reused by developers.

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Description

Interface Summary

ThemeContentDescriptorConstants	Constants describing the xml attributes for a DefaultThemeContent.
ThemeItemDescriptorConstants	The constants in this interface identify the various components of the xml describing an ThemeItem.
ThemeJspIncludeDescriptorConstants	Constants describing the xml for declaring a DefaultThemeJspInclude

Class Summary

DefaultThemeContent	The default implementation of ThemeContent.
DefaultThemeItem	This class will retrieve the icon path for an extension.
DefaultThemeJspInclude	The default implementation of ThemeJspInclude.
DefaultThemeLinkItem	Creates a link to a portal page.
DefaultThemeTextItem	Generates some text to contribute to a theme extension point.

Package com.ibm.portal.theme.plugin.impl Description

This package provides default implementations of the theme extension interfaces that may be sub-classed and reused by developers.

Package Specification

The implementations provided here may be sub-classed and reused by developers

Default extension points:

The table below describes the extension points included in the default theme. The ID field is the extension point identifier used in the plugin.xml. The Default Implementation field describes the interface which provides the information the default extension point requires. Type enforcement is not performed at runtime.

ID	Description	Default Implementation
com.ibm.portal.theme.plugin.MetaTagDataItems	provides components with a method of adding data to the meta tags of a page	DefaultThemeTextItem
com.ibm.portal.theme.plugin.Styles	provides components with a method of contributing CSS styles to the page (either a link or embedded css)	DefaultThemeTextItem
com.ibm.portal.theme.plugin.JavascriptItems	provides components with a method of adding javascript to a page (either a link or actual js code)	DefaultThemeTextItem
com.ibm.portal.theme.plugin.HorizontalPageBarItems	provides components with a method of adding jsp content to the horizontal page bar	DefaultThemeJspInclude
com.ibm.portal.theme.plugin.VerticalPageBarItems	provides components with a method of adding jsp content to the vertical page bar	DefaultThemeJspInclude
com.ibm.portal.theme.plugin.MainContextMenuItems	provides components with a method of adding an item to the main context menu	DefaultThemeLinkItem
com.ibm.portal.theme.plugin.PageContextMenuItems	provides components with a method of adding an item to the main context menu	DefaultThemeLinkItem
com.ibm.portal.theme.plugin.PortletContextMenuItems	provides components with a method of adding an item to the portlet context menu	DefaultThemeLinkItem
com.ibm.portal.theme.plugin.Flyouts	provides components with a method of adding a flyout to the page	DefaultThemeJspInclude

Extension point definition examples:

Please note that all markup in this section is implementation specific. The parsing of the plugin.xml is handled by the implementing extension through the setInitializationData method.

Defining a link extension:

<extension point="com.ibm.portal.theme.plugin.MainContextMenu">
                <item id="AdministrationLink"
                         class="com.ibm.wps.theme.plugin.impl.DefaultThemePageLinkItemImpl"
                         title="helloworld.title"
                         description="helloworld.description"
                         tooltip="helloworld.tooltip"
                         ordinal="200"
                         contentNode="wps.Administration" / >
</extension>

Defining a jsp include extension:

<extension point="com.ibm.wps.plugin.theme.Flyout">
        <include id="PeopleAwareFlyout"
                    class="com.ibm.wps.theme.plugin.impl.DefaultThemeIncludeJspImpl"
                    ordinal="200"
                    jsp="PeopleFlyout.jsp" />
</extension>