1 /*
2 * Copyright 2005-2008 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 *
5 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
6 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
7 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
8 *
9 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
10 *
11 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
12 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
13 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
14 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
15 * limitations under the License.
16 */
17 package org.kuali.rice.kew.plugin;
18
19 /**
20 * An interface representing an Entity that can be reloaded. Calls to reload should only be executed if
21 * this Reloadable has flagged itself as reloadable according to the isReloadable() method.
22 *
23 * <p>If invocations of isReloadable() return false then calls to reload() should be
24 * no-ops.
25 *
26 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
27 */
28 public interface Reloadable {
29
30 /**
31 * Indicates whether or not this Reloadable currently supports being reloaded.
32 * If this method returns false then calls to reload() are effectively no-ops.
33 *
34 * @return true if this Reloadable can be reloaded, false otherwise
35 */
36 public boolean isReloadable();
37
38 public boolean isReloadNeeded();
39
40 /**
41 * Reloads the Reloadable. If isReloadable() returns false then this method
42 * should be a no-op.
43 */
44 public void reload() throws Exception;
45
46 }