1 /* 2 * $Id: LifecycleStateEnabled.java 20813 2010-12-21 11:37:48Z dirk.olmes $ 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 import org.mule.api.service.Service; 13 import org.mule.api.transport.Connector; 14 15 /** 16 * Objects that have an associated lifecycle manager such as {@link Service} or 17 * {@link Connector} should implement this interface so that the registry lifecycle 18 * manager can introspect the lifecycle state of an object. This allows objects to 19 * have a different lifecycle state to the registry. Typically objects that have 20 * their own lifecycle manager can be controlled externally through JMX which means 21 * there is no guarantee that the state of the object is in the same lifecycle state 22 * of the registry, hence the need to introspect the lifecycle state of an object. 23 * 24 * @since 3.0 25 */ 26 public interface LifecycleStateEnabled 27 { 28 LifecycleState getLifecycleState(); 29 }