1 /* 2 * $Id: LifecycleStateEnabled.java 19191 2010-08-25 21:05:23Z tcarlson $ 3 * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 * Copyright (c) MuleSoft, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.mulesoft.com 5 * 6 * The software in this package is published under the terms of the CPAL v1.0 7 * license, a copy of which has been included with this distribution in the 8 * LICENSE.txt file. 9 */ 10 package org.mule.api.lifecycle; 11 12 /** 13 * Objects that have an associated lifecycle manager such as {@link Service} or {@link org.mule.api.transport.Connector} should 14 * implement this interface so that the registry lifecycle manager can introspect the lifecycle state of an object. 15 * This allows objects to have a different lifecycle state to the registry. Typically objects that ahve their own lifecycle manager 16 * can be controlled externally through JMX which means there is no guarantee that the state of the object is in the same 17 * lifecycle state of the registry, hence the need to introspect the lifecycle state of an object. 18 * 19 * @since 3.0 20 */ 21 public interface LifecycleStateEnabled 22 { 23 LifecycleState getLifecycleState(); 24 }