1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2012 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.kew.plugin;
17
18 /**
19 * Loads a plugin from some source (i.e. filesytem, classpath, network...)
20 *
21 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
22 */
23 public interface PluginLoader extends Modifiable {
24
25 public String getPluginName();
26
27 /**
28 * Loads the plugin, this method should NOT invoke any of the Lifecycle methods of the plugin
29 * before returning it to the calling code.
30 */
31 public Plugin load() throws Exception;
32
33 /**
34 * Returns true if the Plugin loaded by this loader has been removed (for example, it was
35 * deleted from the file system which should result in the plugin being undeployed).
36 */
37 public boolean isRemoved();
38
39 public void setPluginConfigPath(String pluginConfigPath);
40
41 }