/*

  * Copyright 2005-2007 The Kuali Foundation

  * 

  * 

  * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

  * You may obtain a copy of the License at

  * 

  * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php

  * 

  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

  * limitations under the License.

  */

 package org.kuali.rice.kew.plugin;

 /**

  * Loads a plugin from some source (i.e. filesytem, classpath, network...)

  *

  * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

  */

 public interface PluginLoader extends Modifiable {

     public String getPluginName();

         /**

          * Loads the plugin, this method should NOT invoke any of the Lifecycle methods of the plugin

          * before returning it to the calling code.

          */

         public Plugin load() throws Exception;

         /**

          * Returns true if the Plugin loaded by this loader has been removed (for example, it was

          * deleted from the file system which should result in the plugin being undeployed).

          */

         public boolean isRemoved();

         public void setPluginConfigPath(String pluginConfigPath);

 }