Application

A MDIApplication is an interface which is the top-level element of the MDIFramework. It does not provide a UI by default but provides the following utilities:

• A Plugin framework
• A Configuration / Preferences framework
• An actions framework

The AbstractApplication is an abstract implementation which ease the creation of a application.

Application initialization

The constructor of the application allows to configure the content of the application, including:

• If it can manage Plugins
• If it serialize and deserialize its configuration
• For GUI applications, the application menu factory, its Status bar, its logger area, and its Splash Screen

Exiting of the application

The MDIApplication.disposeApplication() method is called when the application is disposed of (for example when closing the window, or explicitly exiting the application). You can override the method if you want to get rid of resources created at the application creation, for example:

   @Override
   public void disposeApplication() {
      // do something to get rid of used resources
      super.disposeApplication();
   }   

GUI applications

GUI applications are applications which manage the concept of "tabbed documents". They support several concepts which are not available on regular applications, such as:

• A Menu Factory: See Menu factory for more information
• A message area: See Message area for more information
• A Splash screen: See Adding a Splash screen for more information

A GUI application must implement the GUIApplication interface. There are two abstract GUI implementations for the Swing and JavaFX frameworks:

• The AbstractMDIApplication provide a GUI and allows to create a Swing Application
• The AbstractJFXApplication does not provide a GUI by default, but has no Swing dependencies and allows to create a JavaFX Application

Restarting an application

The LauncherConf.restart(MDIApplication) allows to restart the application. This method will call MDIApplication.disposeApplication() to exit.