/*$Id: ComponentManager.java,v 1.1 2004/05/04 11:00:12 nw Exp $

  * Created on 04-May-2004

  *

  * Copyright (C) AstroGrid. All rights reserved.

  *

  * This software is published under the terms of the AstroGrid 

  * Software License version 1.2, a copy of which has been included 

  * with this distribution in the LICENSE.txt file.  

  *

 **/

 package org.astrogrid.component;

 import org.picocontainer.MutablePicoContainer;

 import org.picocontainer.Startable;

 import junit.framework.Test;

 /**Interface to a container for components.

  * <p>

  * Based on an underlying <a href="http://www.picocontainer.org/">PicoContainer</a> implementation

  * @author Noel Winstanley nw@jb.man.ac.uk 04-May-2004

  *

  */

 public interface ComponentManager extends Startable{

     /** output human-readable description of contents of container as HTML

      *  <p>

      * used for debugging / output to JSP 

      * Uses descriptions from components that implement the {@link org.astrogrid.jes.component.descriptor.ComponentDescriptor} interface*/

     public abstract String informationHTML();

     /** output human-readable description of contents of container */

     public abstract String information();

     /** return a suite of installation tests for the components in the container 

      * <p>

      * this suite is the composition of all installation tests returned by objects in the container that implement the

      * {@link org.astrogrid.jes.component.descriptor.ComponentDescriptor} interface

      * */

     public abstract Test getSuite();

     /** get the picocontainer that manages the components */

     public abstract MutablePicoContainer getContainer();

 }

 /* 

 $Log: ComponentManager.java,v $

 Revision 1.1  2004/05/04 11:00:12  nw

 moved pico-container component stuff from jes into common, so it can be used in cea too

 */