001/* PersistentMBean.java -- Interface for beans that should persist. 002 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. 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If you modify this library, you may extend 034this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036exception statement from your version. */ 037 038package javax.management; 039 040/** 041 * Beans may implement this interface in order to become 042 * persistent. The {@link #load()} method should be 043 * called on construction in order to reload the stored 044 * state. The {@link #store()} method should be called 045 * sometime during the bean's lifetime in order to create 046 * a persistent copy of the bean's instance data. This 047 * method may also be called by the {@link MBeanServer} 048 * as a result of the {@link Descriptor} of an 049 * {@link javax.management.modelmbean.ModelMBean}. 050 * 051 * @author Andrew John Hughes (gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org) 052 * @since 1.5 053 */ 054public interface PersistentMBean 055{ 056 057 /** 058 * Instantiates the bean with the data previously stored 059 * using a call to {@link #store()}. The data stored can 060 * include values held by attributes as well as those returned 061 * by operations. This method should be called during 062 * construction or initialisation of the bean, before 063 * it becomes registered with an {@link MBeanServer}. 064 * 065 * @throws MBeanException if persistence is not supported, 066 * or another exception is thrown 067 * (which this then wraps). 068 * @throws RuntimeOperationsException if the persistence 069 * mechanism throws an 070 * exception. 071 * @throws InstanceNotFoundException if the bean can not 072 * be found in the 073 * persistent store. 074 */ 075 void load() 076 throws MBeanException, RuntimeOperationsException, 077 InstanceNotFoundException; 078 079 /** 080 * <p> 081 * Captures the current state of the bean and stores it 082 * for future retrieval by the {@link #load()} method. 083 * The data stored can include values held by attributes 084 * as well as those returned by operations. 085 * </p> 086 * <p> 087 * Whether the state is stored or not depends on the 088 * <code>persistPolicy</code> field of the MBean/attribute 089 * descriptor. The state should be stored if the policy 090 * is set to any of the following: 091 * </p> 092 * <ul> 093 * <li><code>always</code></li> 094 * <li><code>onTimer</code> and <code>now</code> is 095 * greater than or equal to <code>lastPersistTime + 096 * persistPeriod</code>.</li> 097 * <li><code>noMoreOftenThan</code> and <code>now</code> is 098 * greater than or equal to <code>lastPersistTime + 099 * persistPeriod</code>.</li> 100 * <li>onUnregister</li> 101 * </ul> 102 * <p>If the policy is set to any of the following, the state 103 * should not be stored:</p> 104 * <ul> 105 * <li><code>never</code></li> 106 * <li><code>onUpdate</code></li> 107 * <li><code>onTimer</code> and <code>now</code> is 108 * less than <code>lastPersistTime + persistPeriod</code>. 109 * </li> 110 * </ul> 111 * 112 * @throws MBeanException if persistence is not supported, 113 * or another exception is thrown 114 * (which this then wraps). 115 * @throws RuntimeOperationsException if the persistence 116 * mechanism throws an 117 * exception. 118 * @throws InstanceNotFoundException if the persistent 119 * store can not be found 120 * or accessed. 121 */ 122 void store() 123 throws MBeanException, RuntimeOperationsException, 124 InstanceNotFoundException; 125 126}