org.glassfish.hk2
Interface ManagedComponentProvider<T>

All Superinterfaces:

Provider<T>, Releasable

public interface ManagedComponentProvider<T>
extends Provider<T>, Releasable

A ManagedComponentProvider is one in which its backing component that it provides can either be in an active or inactive state.

Lazy implies managed. However, managed does NOT imply lazy. Therefore, a ManagedComponentProvider might allow for Releasable.release() but it is not "lazy" meaning that it is active in its natural state.

ManagedComponentProviders are usually lazy, Singleton scoped services (but not always). Lazy, Singleton services exhibit the following characteristics:

(a) are initially not active,

(b) are made active by calling Provider.get(),

(c) once active will produce the same service each time (i.e., assert(get() == get())},

(d) once released, a call to get() will return a newly created instance.

Author:

Jerome Dochez, Jeff Trent

Method Summary

Methods inherited from interface org.glassfish.hk2.Provider

get, getAnnotations, getByType, isActive, type

Methods inherited from interface org.glassfish.hk2.Releasable

release