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/* |
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* i-scream central monitoring system |
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* Copyright (C) 2000-2002 i-scream |
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* |
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* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or |
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* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License |
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* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 |
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* of the License, or (at your option) any later version. |
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* |
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* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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* GNU General Public License for more details. |
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* |
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* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software |
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* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. |
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*/ |
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//---PACKAGE DECLARATION--- |
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package uk.org.iscream.cms.server.componentmanager; |
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//---IMPORTS--- |
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/** |
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* This interface should be implemented by any independent |
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* components of the system. It presents a management |
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* interface for all i-scream components. |
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* |
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* @author $Author: tdb $ |
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* @version $Id: Component.java,v 1.6 2001/05/29 17:02:34 tdb Exp $ |
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*/ |
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public interface Component { |
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//---FINAL ATTRIBUTES--- |
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//---STATIC METHODS--- |
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//---CONSTRUCTORS--- |
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//---PUBLIC METHODS--- |
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/** |
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* This method starts the implementing component |
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*/ |
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public void start() throws ComponentStartException; |
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/** |
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* Does a dependency check. Used mainly at startup to |
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* see if the required dependencies (components) are up |
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* and running. |
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* |
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* @return a boolean value, true if the depdencies are satisfied |
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*/ |
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public boolean depCheck(); |
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//---PRIVATE METHODS--- |
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//---ACCESSOR/MUTATOR METHODS--- |
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//---ATTRIBUTES--- |
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//---STATIC ATTRIBUTES--- |
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} |
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