public Resource() 
{

}

Default constructor

 public Object getData() 
{
        return data;
}

Get arbitrary data object that might be used by the resource.

 public String getEncoding() 
{
        return encoding;
}

get the encoding of this resource for example, "ISO-8859-1"

 public long getLastModified() 
{
        return lastModified;
}

Return the lastModifed time of this resource.

 public String getName() 
{
        return name;
}

Get the name of this template.

 public ResourceLoader getResourceLoader() 
{
        return resourceLoader;
}

Return the template loader that pulled in the template stream

 public boolean isSourceModified() 
{
        return resourceLoader.isSourceModified(this);
}

 abstract public boolean process() throws Exception, ResourceNotFoundException, ParseErrorException
Perform any subsequent processing that might need
to be done by a resource. In the case of a template
the actual parsing of the input stream needs to be
performed.

 public boolean requiresChecking() 
{
        /*
         *  short circuit this if modificationCheckInterval == 0
         *  as this means "don't check"
         */
        if (modificationCheckInterval < = 0 )
        {
           return false;
        }
        /*
         *  see if we need to check now
         */
        return ( System.currentTimeMillis()  >= nextCheck );
}

Is it time to check to see if the resource source has been updated?

 public  void setData(Object data) 
{
        this.data = data;
}

Set arbitrary data object that might be used by the resource.

 public  void setEncoding(String encoding) 
{
        this.encoding = encoding;
}

set the encoding of this resource for example, "ISO-8859-1"

 public  void setLastModified(long lastModified) 
{
        this.lastModified = lastModified;
}

Set the last modified time for this resource.

 public  void setModificationCheckInterval(long modificationCheckInterval) 
{
        this.modificationCheckInterval = modificationCheckInterval;
}

Set the modification check interval.

 public  void setName(String name) 
{
        this.name = name;
}

Set the name of this resource, for example test.vm.

 public  void setResourceLoader(ResourceLoader resourceLoader) 
{
        this.resourceLoader = resourceLoader;
}

Set the template loader for this template. Set when the Runtime determines where this template came from the list of possible sources.

 public  void setRuntimeServices(RuntimeServices rs) 
{
        rsvc = rs;
}

 public  void touch() 
{
        nextCheck = System.currentTimeMillis() + ( MILLIS_PER_SECOND *  modificationCheckInterval);
}

'Touch' this template and thereby resetting the nextCheck field.