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  * 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,

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 package org.kuali.rice.core.api.lifecycle;

 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.lifecycle.Lifecycle;

 /**

  * An abstract superclass to aid in implementing lifeycles.

  *

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

  */

 public abstract class BaseLifecycle implements Lifecycle {

         private boolean started = false;

         public boolean isStarted() {

                 return this.started;

         }

         public void start() throws Exception {

                 setStarted(true);

         }

         public void stop() throws Exception {

                 setStarted(false);

         }

         protected void setStarted(boolean started) {

                 this.started = started;

         }

 }