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.kernel; 018 019 /** 020 * This class contains context information available to a service factory during service construction and destruction. 021 * 022 * @author Dain Sundstrom 023 * @version $Id$ 024 * @since 2.0 025 */ 026 public interface ServiceContext { 027 /** 028 * Gets the kernel in which this service is registered. 029 * 030 * @return the kernel in which this service is registered 031 */ 032 Kernel getKernel(); 033 034 /** 035 * Gets the unique name of the service in the kernel. 036 * 037 * @return the unique name of this service in the kernel 038 */ 039 ServiceName getServiceName(); 040 041 /** 042 * Gets the class loader for this service. 043 * 044 * @return the class loader for this service 045 */ 046 ClassLoader getClassLoader(); 047 }