Package net.sf.mmm.util.component.api

Contains API to help implementing components.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
Api	This interface only exists for documentation purpose! API is a shortcut for Application Programming Interface and identifies all types required to access a component.
Cdi	This interface only exists for documentation purpose! CDI is a shortcut for Context and Dependency Injection and is a java standard supporting the IoC pattern.
ComponentContainer	This is the interface for a Ioc/context and dependency injection (CDI) container.
Ioc	This interface is only used for documentation of what is meant by the terms IoC.
IocContainer	This is the interface for the container of a CDI/IoC framework.
PeriodicRefresher	This is the interface for a component that periodically refreshes registered Refreshables.
Refreshable	This is the interface for an object that can be refreshed.

Enum Summary

Enum	Description
InitializationState	This enum contains the available states of an initialization.

Exception Summary

Exception	Description
AlreadyInitializedException	This is the exception thrown if an operation was invoked after the object was initialized but has to be called before initialization.
NotInitializedException	This is the exception thrown if an operation was invoked before the object was initialized but has to be called after initialization.
ResourceAmbiguousException	This is the exception thrown if a unique resource is required but multiple instances have been found.
ResourceMissingException	This is the exception thrown if a resource is required but is NOT available.

Annotation Types Summary

Annotation Type	Description
ComponentSpecification	ComponentSpecification is used to annotate the specification (should be an interface) of a component (or better a part of it).

Package net.sf.mmm.util.component.api Description

Contains API to help implementing components.

Component-Util API

With JSR 250 (commons-annotations) it is very easy to write components and therefore component-oriented applications.
This package provides some common runtime exceptions for typical errors of components (or whatever you call it).