org.crosswire.common.activate
Interface Activatable

All Known Subinterfaces:
Book
All Known Implementing Classes:
AbstractBackend, AbstractBook, AbstractPassageBook, GenBookBackend, GZIPBackend, LuceneIndex, LZSSBackend, RawBackend, RawLDBackend, ReadingsBook, SwordBook, SwordDailyDevotion, SwordDictionary, ZLDBackend

public interface Activatable

A class can be Activatable if it needs a significant amount of memory on an irregular basis, and so would benefit from being told when to wake-up and when to conserver memory.

Author:
Joe Walker [joe at eireneh dot com]
See Also:
for license details. The copyright to this program is held by it's authors.

Method Summary
 void activate(Lock lock)
          Called to indicate that the Book should initialize itself, and consume whatever system resources it needs to be able to respond to other queries.
 void deactivate(Lock lock)
          Called to indicate that the Book should release whatever system resources it can to make way for other uses.
 

Method Detail

activate

void activate(Lock lock)
Called to indicate that the Book should initialize itself, and consume whatever system resources it needs to be able to respond to other queries.

Parameters:
lock - An attempt to ensure that only the Activator calls this method

deactivate

void deactivate(Lock lock)
Called to indicate that the Book should release whatever system resources it can to make way for other uses.

Parameters:
lock - An attempt to ensure that only the Activator calls this method

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