Editor Providers would enables editor developers to embedd their editors into JSPWiki with a simple Interface.

It uses a Factory class named EditorManager which would instanciate an EditorProvider of a certain type, indicated in the jspwiki.properties file by the jspwiki.editor property. For Example

jspwiki.editor=com.ecyrd.jspwiki.editors.WikiWizard

An editor provider implements the EditorProvider interface which has the following three methods:

• createIncludes() - Incldes needed by the editors (JavaScript includes)
• createEditorArea() - The area where to type in the text
• createButtons() - The submit buttons

Here's an example code snipped which would be used in the doEndTag() method of the EditorAreaTag to create a generic editor area

    EditorManager em = new EditorManager(pageContext, getBodyContent() );
    EditorProvider provider = em.createProvider();
                
    pageContext.getOut().print( provider.createEditor().toString() );

In order to implement the EditorProvider interface two new tags are needed:

• EditorIncludesTag
• EditorButtonsTag

The EditorAreaTag and EditorTag will have to be modified to use the new EditorProvider Interface.