fr.liglab.adele.icasa.application

Interface ApplicationProvider

public interface ApplicationProvider

This interface represents an application. An installed application should provide one service which implements this interface.

Author:

Thomas Leveque

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	pause(ProgressMonitor monitor) Stop application computation temporary.
void	resume(ProgressMonitor monitor) Resume this application if it has been paused.
void	start(ProgressMonitor monitor) Starts this application.
void	stop(ProgressMonitor monitor) Stops this application.

Method Detail

start

void start(ProgressMonitor monitor)

Starts this application. Resources for this application must not be allocated before it has started.

Parameters:

monitor - a operation progress monitor (may be null)

stop

void stop(ProgressMonitor monitor)

Stops this application. Allocated resources must be clean up before returning.

Parameters:

monitor - a operation progress monitor (may be null)

resume

void resume(ProgressMonitor monitor)

Resume this application if it has been paused.

Parameters:

monitor - a operation progress monitor (may be null)

pause

void pause(ProgressMonitor monitor)

Stop application computation temporary. All computation must be stopped or paused. In particular, there should not be any messages sent from this digital application. However, incoming messages may still arrive. Allocated resource could remain in memory.

Parameters:

monitor - a operation progress monitor (may be null)