org.mule.api.component
Interface Component

All Superinterfaces:

FlowConstructAware, MessageProcessor

All Known Subinterfaces:

JavaComponent

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbderaServiceComponent, AbstractComponent, AbstractJavaComponent, AbstractWebServiceWrapperComponent, DefaultJavaComponent, JcaComponent, JerseyResourcesComponent, PassThroughComponent, PooledJavaComponent, ProcessComponent, RestServiceWrapper, RulesComponent, ScriptComponent, SimpleCallableJavaComponent, WebServiceWrapperComponent, WebServiceWrapperComponent

public interface Component
extends MessageProcessor, FlowConstructAware

A Component component processes a MuleEvent by invoking the component instance that has been configured, optionally returning a result.

Implementations of Component can use different types of component implementation, implement component instance pooling or implement bindings which allow for service composition.

Method Summary

ComponentStatistics

getStatistics() Component statistics are used to gather component statistics such as sync/async invocation counts and total and average execution time.

Methods inherited from interface org.mule.api.processor.MessageProcessor

process

Methods inherited from interface org.mule.api.construct.FlowConstructAware

setFlowConstruct

Method Detail

getStatistics

ComponentStatistics getStatistics()

Component statistics are used to gather component statistics such as sync/async invocation counts and total and average execution time.