001 /** 002 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 003 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 004 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 005 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 006 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 007 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 008 * 009 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 010 * 011 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 012 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 013 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 014 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 015 * limitations under the License. 016 */ 017 package org.apache.xbean.server.loader; 018 019 import org.apache.xbean.kernel.ServiceName; 020 import org.apache.xbean.kernel.Kernel; 021 022 /** 023 * Loaders load configurations into a Kernel. 024 * @author Dain Sundstrom 025 * @version $Id$ 026 * @since 2.0 027 */ 028 public interface Loader { 029 /** 030 * Gets the kernel in which configuraitons are loaded. 031 * @return the kernel in which configurations are loaded 032 */ 033 Kernel getKernel(); 034 035 /** 036 * Loads the specified configuration into the kernel. The location passed to this method is specific loader 037 * implementation. It is important to remember that a loader only loads the configuration into the kernel and 038 * does not start the configuration. 039 * 040 * @param location the location of the configuration 041 * @return the service name of the configuration added to the kernel 042 * @throws Exception if a problem occurs while loading the configuration 043 */ 044 ServiceName load(String location) throws Exception; 045 }