1 /* 2 * JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source 3 * Copyright 2005, JBoss Inc., and individual contributors as indicated 4 * by the @authors tag. See the copyright.txt in the distribution for a 5 * full listing of individual contributors. 6 * 7 * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 8 * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 9 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of 10 * the License, or (at your option) any later version. 11 * 12 * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 13 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 14 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 15 * Lesser General Public License for more details. 16 * 17 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 18 * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free 19 * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 20 * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. 21 */ 22 package org.jboss.beans.metadata.spi; 23 24 import org.jboss.dependency.spi.ControllerState; 25 import org.jboss.util.JBossInterface; 26 27 /** 28 * Metadata about what a bean demands. 29 * 30 * @author <a HREF="adrian@jboss.com">Adrian Brock</a> 31 * @version $Revision: 40756 $ 32 */ 33 public interface DemandMetaData extends MetaDataVisitorNode, JBossInterface 34 { 35 /** 36 * What is demanded 37 * 38 * @return the demand 39 */ 40 Object getDemand(); 41 42 /** 43 * Get when the dependency is required 44 * 45 * @return when the dependency is required 46 */ 47 ControllerState getWhenRequired(); 48 } 49