com.cafesoft.core.service
Interface Service

All Superinterfaces:

Debuggable

All Known Subinterfaces:

AccessControlService, AuthenticationService, JdbcConnectionPoolService, LdapConnectionPoolService, LifecycleService, PingService, ServiceAdapter, ServiceConnector, ServiceManager, ServiceProvider, SessionAccessService, SessionControlService, UserRepositoryService

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractLifecycleService, AbstractService, AbstractServiceConnector, StandardServiceAdapter, StandardServiceManager, StandardServiceProvider

public interface Service

extends Debuggable

Service is a basic interface used to identify a class as a Service. Objects that implement this interface can be registered and looked up using a ServiceManager.

Since:

7/25/2001

Method Summary

void	destroy() Destroy the Service.
ServiceConfig	getServiceConfig() Get the ServiceConfig.
void	initialize(ServiceConfig config) Initialize the Service.

Methods inherited from interface com.cafesoft.core.util.Debuggable

setDebug

Method Detail

initialize

public void initialize(ServiceConfig config)
                throws ServiceException

Initialize the Service.

Parameters:

config - the ServiceConfig

Throws:

ServiceException - if an error initializing the Service

getServiceConfig

public ServiceConfig getServiceConfig()

Get the ServiceConfig.

Returns:

the ServiceConfig

destroy

public void destroy()

Destroy the Service. Implementations should null Object references.