org.picocontainer
Interface LifecycleStrategy

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractBehavior, AbstractMonitoringLifecycleStrategy, Automated, Cached, CompositeLifecycleStrategy, Decorated, FieldDecorated, Guarded, HiddenImplementation, InstanceAdapter, Intercepted, JavaEE5LifecycleStrategy, Locked, NullLifecycleStrategy, PropertyApplicator, ProviderAdapter, ReflectionLifecycleStrategy, StartableLifecycleStrategy, Stored, Synchronized, ThreadCached

public interface LifecycleStrategy

An interface which specifies the lifecycle strategy on the component instance. Lifecycle strategies are used by component adapters to delegate the lifecycle operations on the component instances.

Author:

Paul Hammant, Peter Royal, Jörg Schaible, Mauro Talevi

See Also:

Startable, Disposable

Method Summary

void	dispose(Object component) Invoke the "dispose" method on the component instance if this is disposable.
boolean	hasLifecycle(Class<?> type) Test if a component instance has a lifecycle.
boolean	isLazy(ComponentAdapter<?> adapter) Is a component eager (not lazy) in that it should start when start() or equivalent is called, or lazy (it will only start on first getComponent() ).
void	start(Object component) Invoke the "start" method on the component instance if this is startable.
void	stop(Object component) Invoke the "stop" method on the component instance if this is stoppable.

Method Detail

start

void start(Object component)

Invoke the "start" method on the component instance if this is startable. It is up to the implementation of the strategy what "start" and "startable" means.

Parameters:

component - the instance of the component to start

stop

void stop(Object component)

Invoke the "stop" method on the component instance if this is stoppable. It is up to the implementation of the strategy what "stop" and "stoppable" means.

Parameters:

component - the instance of the component to stop

dispose

void dispose(Object component)

Invoke the "dispose" method on the component instance if this is disposable. It is up to the implementation of the strategy what "dispose" and "disposable" means.

Parameters:

component - the instance of the component to dispose

hasLifecycle

boolean hasLifecycle(Class<?> type)

Test if a component instance has a lifecycle.

Parameters:

type - the component's type

Returns:

true if the component has a lifecycle

isLazy

boolean isLazy(ComponentAdapter<?> adapter)

Is a component eager (not lazy) in that it should start when start() or equivalent is called, or lazy (it will only start on first getComponent() ). The default is the first of those two.

Parameters:

adapter -

Returns:

true if lazy, false if not lazy