OrderedBean (Sakai Entity Broker API 22.3 API)

All Superinterfaces:

AutoRegister
```
public interface OrderedBean
extends AutoRegister
```
This sets the order of a bean when it is grabbed by the bean collector and ensures a guaranteed priority order of collected beans, lower orders (numbers) will be loaded first and the orders do not have to be consecutive (there can be gaps)

Author:

Aaron Zeckoski (aaron@caret.cam.ac.uk)

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`int`	`getOrder()`	Sets the order to load the bean which implements this method compared to other beans of the same type, lower orders (numbers) will be loaded first (i.e. order 1 will appear before order 3 in the list) and the orders do not have to be consecutive (there can be gaps), 2 beans with the same order or beans with no order set will be ordered randomly

- Method Detail
  - getOrder
```
int getOrder()
```
    Sets the order to load the bean which implements this method compared to other beans of the same type, lower orders (numbers) will be loaded first (i.e. order 1 will appear before order 3 in the list) and the orders do not have to be consecutive (there can be gaps), 2 beans with the same order or beans with no order set will be ordered randomly
    
    Returns:
    
    an int which represents the loading order