org.talika.tarsis.service
Interface Service

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractService

public interface Service

Interface that defines a service component in Tarsis MVC Framework.

These architectural components provide auxiliar services to the rest of the framework. Typical services are, object factories or log.

Services have their own life-cycle and are initiated throught init method when framework stars up and are destroyed calling destroy method when framework shutsdown.

Every service is given a name. This name is unique in the context.

Version:

$Revision: 122 $

Author:

Jose M. Palomar

Method Summary

void	destroy() Called by the framework to indicate that is being placed out of service.
java.lang.String	getName() Returns name of service.
void	init(Context context) Called by the framework to indicate that is being placed into service.

Method Detail

init

public void init(Context context)
          throws ServiceException

Called by the framework to indicate that is being placed into service.

Parameters:

context - Context context that initialized service.

Throws:

ServiceException - if an exception has occurred that interferes with the services's normal operation

destroy

public void destroy()

Called by the framework to indicate that is being placed out of service.

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

Returns name of service.

Returns:

String name of service.