org.crosswire.common.activate
Interface Activatable

All Known Subinterfaces:

Book

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractBook, AbstractPassageBook, ReadingsBook, SwordBook, SwordDailyDevotion, SwordDictionary, SwordGenBook, TreeKeyIndex

public interface Activatable

A class can be Activatable if it needs a significant amount of memory on an irregular basis, and so would benefit from being told when to wake-up and when to conserver memory.

Author:

Joe Walker

See Also:

The GNU Lesser General Public License for details.

Method Summary

void	activate(Lock lock) Called to indicate that the Book should initialize itself, and consume whatever system resources it needs to be able to respond to other queries.
void	deactivate(Lock lock) Called to indicate that the Book should release whatever system resources it can to make way for other uses.

Method Detail

activate

void activate(Lock lock)

Called to indicate that the Book should initialize itself, and consume whatever system resources it needs to be able to respond to other queries.

Parameters:

lock - An attempt to ensure that only the Activator calls this method

deactivate

void deactivate(Lock lock)

Called to indicate that the Book should release whatever system resources it can to make way for other uses.

Parameters:

lock - An attempt to ensure that only the Activator calls this method