001/**
002 * Copyright 2005-2015 The Kuali Foundation
003 *
004 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007 *
008 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
009 *
010 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
012 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
013 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
014 * limitations under the License.
015 */
016package org.kuali.rice.kew.plugin;
017
018/**
019 * Loads a plugin from some source (i.e. filesytem, classpath, network...)
020 *
021 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
022 */
023public interface PluginLoader extends Modifiable {
024
025    public String getPluginName();
026    
027        /**
028         * Loads the plugin, this method should NOT invoke any of the Lifecycle methods of the plugin
029         * before returning it to the calling code.
030         */
031        public Plugin load() throws Exception;
032        
033        /**
034         * Returns true if the Plugin loaded by this loader has been removed (for example, it was
035         * deleted from the file system which should result in the plugin being undeployed).
036         */
037        public boolean isRemoved();
038        
039        public void setPluginConfigPath(String pluginConfigPath);
040        
041}