package org.apache.turbine.services.yafficomponent;

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import org.apache.fulcrum.yaafi.framework.container.ServiceConstants;
import org.apache.turbine.services.Service;

/**
 * This service allows access to avalon components.
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:quintonm@bellsouth.net">Quinton McCombs</a>
 * @author <a href="mailto:hps@intermeta.de">Henning P. Schmiedehausen</a>
 * @author <a href="mailto:siegfried.goeschl@it20one.at">Siegfried Goeschl</a>
 */
public interface YaafiComponentService
        extends Service, ServiceConstants
{
    /** The publicly visible name of the service */
    String SERVICE_NAME = "AvalonComponentService";

    /** Where we write the Avalon Logger messages */
    String AVALON_LOG_CATEGORY = "avalon";

    /** property specifing file name of the component config file */
    String COMPONENT_CONFIG_KEY = "componentConfiguration";

    /** property specifing file name of the component config file */
    String COMPONENT_CONFIG_VALUE = "/WEB-INF/conf/componentConfiguration.xml";

    /** property specifing file name of the component role file */
    String COMPONENT_ROLE_KEY = "componentRoles";

    /** property specifing file name of the component role file */
    String COMPONENT_ROLE_VALUE = "/WEB-INF/conf/roleConfiguration.xml";

    /** property for the Components to look up */
    String COMPONENT_LOOKUP_KEY = "lookup";

    /** Key used in the context for defining the application root */
    String COMPONENT_APP_ROOT = "componentAppRoot";

    /**
     * Returns an instance of the named component
     *
     * @param roleName Name of the role the component fills.
     * @return an instance of the named component
     * @throws Exception generic exception
     */
    public Object lookup(String path) throws Exception;

    /**
     * Releases the component
     *
     * @param source. The path to the handler for this component
     * For example, if the component is a java.sql.Connection
     * object sourced from the "/turbine-merlin/datasource"
     * component, the call would be :-
     * release("/turbine-merlin/datasource", conn);
     * @param component the component to release
     */
    public void release(Object component);
}