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* Copyright (c) 2000, 2010 QNX Software Systems and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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*
* Contributors:
* QNX Software Systems - Initial API and implementation
* Navid Mehregani (TI) - Bug 289526 - Migrate the Restart feature to the new one, as supported by the platform
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.cdt.debug.core.model;
import org.eclipse.debug.core.DebugException;
/**
* Provides the ability to restart a debug target.
* <p>
* Note: Debug elements which support restart should implement this interface.
* Adopting to this interface is not enough.
* </p>
* <p>
* Note 2: Debugger can also implement the asynchronous
* {@link org.eclipse.debug.core.commands.IRestartHandler}.
* </p>
*
* @see org.eclipse.debug.core.commands.IRestartHandler
*/
public interface IRestart
{
/**
* Returns whether this element can currently be restarted.
*
* @return whether this element can currently be restarted
*/
public boolean canRestart();
/**
* Causes this element to restart its execution.
*
* @exception DebugException on failure. Reasons include:
*/
public void restart() throws DebugException;
}