package org.apache.turbine.services;
/*
* Copyright 2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License")
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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*/
/**
* Classes that implement this interface need initialization before
* they can work.
*
* These classes rely also on an <code>InitableBroker</code> that
* ensures that there is only one instance of the class in the system,
* and handles dependencies between <code>Initables</code>.
*
* @author <a href="mailto:burton@apache.org">Kevin Burton</a>
* @author <a href="mailto:krzewski@e-point.pl">Rafal Krzewski</a>
* @version $Id: Initable.java 264148 2005-08-29 14:21:04Z henning $
*/
public interface Initable
{
/**
* Provides an Initable with a reference to the InitableBroker
* that instantiated this object, so that it can access other
* Initables.
*
* @param broker The InitableBroker that instantiated this object.
*/
void setInitableBroker(InitableBroker broker);
/**
* Performs early initailization of an Initable
*
* During the startup of the system, different objects may be
* passed to your class using this method. It should ignore any
* objects that it doesn't need or understand.
*
* After the class changes its internal state so that getInit()
* returns true, this method will be called no more, and late
* initialization will not be performed.
*
* If your class relies on early initialization, and the object it
* expects was not received, you can use late initialization to
* throw an exception and complain.
*
* @param data An Object to use for initialization activities.
* @exception InitializationException if initilaization of this
* class was not successful.
*/
void init(Object data) throws InitializationException;
/**
* Performs late initialization of an Initable.
*
* When your class is being requested from an InitableBroker, it
* will call getInit(), and if it returns false, this method will
* be invoked.
*
* @exception InitializationException if initialization of this
* class was not successful.
*/
void init() throws InitializationException;
/**
* Returns an <code>Initable</code> to an uninitialized state.
*
* <p>This method must release all resources allocated by the
* <code>Initable</code> implementation, and resetting its internal state.
* You may chose to implement this operation or not. If you support
* this operation, getInit() should return false after successful
* shutdown of the service.
*/
void shutdown();
/**
* Returns initialization status of an Initable.
*
* @return Initialization status of an Initable.
*/
boolean getInit();
}
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