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 26 /** 27 * Metadata about an installation method. 28 * 29 * @author <a HREF="adrian@jboss.com">Adrian Brock</a> 30 * @version $Revision: 40727 $ 31 */ 32 public interface InstallMetaData extends LifecycleMetaData 33 { 34 /** 35 * Get the bean name. 36 * 37 * @return the bean name. 38 */ 39 String getBean(); 40 41 /** 42 * Get the required state of the dependency 43 * 44 * @return the required state or null if it must be in the registry 45 */ 46 ControllerState getDependentState(); 47 } 48