001 /* 002 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 003 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 004 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 005 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 006 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 007 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 008 * 009 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 010 * 011 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 012 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 013 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 014 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 015 * limitations under the License. 016 */ 017 018 package org.apache.commons.daemon; 019 020 021 /** 022 * Defines a set of methods that a Daemon instance can use to 023 * communicate with the Daemon container. 024 * 025 * @author Pier Fumagalli 026 * @version 1.0 <i>(CVS $Revision: 480475 $)</i> 027 */ 028 public interface DaemonContext { 029 030 /** 031 * Returns <code>DaemonController</code> object that can be used 032 * to control the <code>Daemon</code> instance that this 033 * <code>DaemonContext</code> is passed to. 034 */ 035 public DaemonController getController(); 036 037 /** 038 * Returns an array of <code>String</code> arguments supplied by 039 * the environment. corresponding to the array of arguments given 040 * in the <code>public static void main()</code> method used as an 041 * entry point to most other java programs. 042 */ 043 public String[] getArguments(); 044 045 }