org.picocontainer
Interface LifecycleManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

CachingComponentAdapter, DecoratingComponentAdapter, InstanceComponentAdapter

public interface LifecycleManager

A manager for the lifecycle of a container's components. The lifecycle manager is implemented by the component adapters which will resolve the dependencies of the component instance and delegate the implementation of the lifecycle control to the lifecycle strategy.

Since:

1.2

Version:

$Revision: 2631 $

Author:

Paul Hammant, Jörg Schaible, Mauro Talevi

See Also:

LifecycleStrategy

Method Summary

void	dispose(PicoContainer container) Invoke the "dispose" method on the container's components.
boolean	hasLifecycle() Test if a container's component has a lifecycle.
void	start(PicoContainer container) Invoke the "start" method on the container's components.
void	stop(PicoContainer container) Invoke the "stop" method on the container's components.

Method Detail

start

public void start(PicoContainer container)

Invoke the "start" method on the container's components.

Parameters:

container - the container to "start" its components' lifecycle

stop

public void stop(PicoContainer container)

Invoke the "stop" method on the container's components.

Parameters:

container - the container to "stop" its components' lifecycle

dispose

public void dispose(PicoContainer container)

Invoke the "dispose" method on the container's components.

Parameters:

container - the container to "dispose" its components' lifecycle

hasLifecycle

public boolean hasLifecycle()

Test if a container's component has a lifecycle.

Returns:

true if the component has a lifecycle