org.jboss.soa.esb.actions
Interface ActionLifecycle

All Known Subinterfaces:

ActionPipelineProcessor

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractActionLifecycle, AbstractActionPipelineProcessor, AbstractObjectXStream, AbstractRouter, Aggregator, BeanConfigActionProcessor, ByteArrayToString, EchoRouter, FileNameGeneratorAction, GroovyActionProcessor, HttpRouter, HttpRouter, JMSRouter, MockAction, Notifier, ObjectInvoke, ObjectToCSVString, ObjectToXStream, PropertySetter, StaticRouter, StaticWiretap, StoreMessageToFile, StringTemplateProcessor, SystemPrintln, TestMessageStore, XStreamToObject

public interface ActionLifecycle

Interface representing lifecycle methods of an action.

Actions implementing this interface will participate in the application lifecycle and should not contain any state specific to a particular message instance. Each ActionProcessingPipeline will instantiate a single instance of the action to process all messages passing through the pipeline.

Author:

kevin

Method Summary

void	destroy() Destroy the action instance.
void	initialise() Initialise the action instance.

Method Detail

initialise

void initialise()
                throws ActionLifecycleException

Initialise the action instance.

This method is called after the action instance has been instantiated so that configuration options can be validated.

Throws:

ActionLifecycleException - for errors during initialisation.

destroy

void destroy()
             throws ActionLifecycleException

Destroy the action instance.

This method is called prior to the release of the action instance. All resources associated with this action instance should be released as the instance will no longer be used.

Throws:

ActionLifecycleException