/*
This file belongs to the Servoy development and deployment environment, Copyright (C) 1997-2010 Servoy BV
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any
later version.
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FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
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*/
package com.servoy.j2db.plugins;
import java.util.Properties;
/**
* Interface for all plugin interfaces.
*
* @author jblok
*/
public interface IPlugin
{
/**
* Key to use to provide a display name from the plugin properties.
*/
public static final String DISPLAY_NAME = "display_name"; //$NON-NLS-1$
/**
* Constants used in propertyChange (PropertyChangeEvent.getPropertyName())
*/
public static final String PROPERTY_SOLUTION = "solution"; //$NON-NLS-1$
public static final String PROPERTY_LOCALE = "locale"; //$NON-NLS-1$
public static final String PROPERTY_CURRENT_WINDOW = "currentWindow"; //$NON-NLS-1$
/**
* Called on application startup before application started up.
*/
public void load() throws PluginException;
/**
* Called on application shutdown.
*/
public void unload() throws PluginException;
/**
* Called for info about the plugin.
*/
public Properties getProperties();
}