authormanager.java

个人blog struts_spring_hibernate

package com.weblog.service;

import java.util.List;

import com.weblog.model.Author;

import com.weblog.dao.AuthorDao;

public interface AuthorManager{
    /**
     * Retrieves all of the authors
     */
    public List getAuthors();

    /**
     * Gets author's information based on id.
     * @param id the author's id
     * @return author populated author object
     */
    public Author getAuthor( String id);

    /**
     * Saves a author's information
     * @param author the object to be saved
     */
    public void saveAuthor(Author author);

    /**
     * Removes a author from the database by id
     * @param id the author's id
     */
    public void removeAuthor( String id);
}