com.cafesoft.core.service
Interface ServiceProvider

All Superinterfaces:

Debuggable, Lifecycle, LifecycleService, Service, ServiceManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

StandardServiceProvider

public interface ServiceProvider

extends ServiceManager

ServiceProvider is a tagging interface that identifies a class as a special ServiceManager that is being managed within a Service hierarchy. In most cases, ServiceProviders have special requirements for when they are started and stopped in relation to peer Services.

Since:

07/18/2002

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface com.cafesoft.core.lifecycle.Lifecycle

START_EVENT, STOP_EVENT

Methods inherited from interface com.cafesoft.core.service.ServiceManager

add, getServices, lookup, lookup, lookup, remove, setServiceStarter, setServiceStopper

Methods inherited from interface com.cafesoft.core.service.Service

destroy, getServiceConfig, initialize

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

setDebug

Methods inherited from interface com.cafesoft.core.lifecycle.Lifecycle

addLifecycleListener, isStarted, removeLifecycleListener, start, stop