Hi
I am trying to understand the primay usage of Serviceable interface.
In Merlin documentation, I find an example where a service consumer looks up for a
certain service. This service consumer implements Serviceable interface.
1. Do I understand it correctly that Serviceable interface is supposed to be
implemented by service consumers?
2. Can service providers implement Serviceable interface?
3. Intuitively, I would suppose that service providers should Serviceable interface
and not service consumers. How does Merlin think?
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Excerpt from Merlin examples:
public class HelloComponent extends AbstractLogEnabled
implements Initializable, Serviceable, Disposable
{
RandomGenerator m_random = null;
Identifiable m_identifiable = null;
/**
* Servicing of the component by the container during
* which service dependencies declared under the component
* can be resolved using the supplied service manager.
*
* @param manager the service manager
* @avalon.dependency type="tutorial.RandomGenerator:1.0"
* key="random"
* @avalon.dependency type="tutorial.Identifiable"
*/
public void service( ServiceManager manager )
throws ServiceException
{
m_random = (RandomGenerator) manager.lookup( "random" );
m_identifiable =
(Identifiable) manager.lookup( Identifiable.class.getName() );
}
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