001 /** 002 * 003 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 004 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 005 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 006 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 007 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 008 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 009 * 010 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 011 * 012 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 013 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 014 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 015 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 016 * limitations under the License. 017 */ 018 package org.apache.camel; 019 020 /** 021 * Represents the core lifecycle API for POJOs which can be started and stopped 022 * 023 * @version $Revision: 532316 $ 024 */ 025 public interface Service { 026 027 /** 028 * Starts the service 029 * 030 * @throws Exception 031 */ 032 void start() throws Exception; 033 034 /** 035 * Stops the service 036 * 037 * @throws Exception 038 */ 039 void stop() throws Exception; 040 }