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<document>
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<title>Fulcrum YAAFI Avalon Container Specification</title>
<author email="siegfried.goeschl@it20one.at">Siegfried Goeschl</author>
</properties>
<body>
<section name="Lifecycle Contract">
<p>
The following contract is fulfilled by the Avalon YAAFI Container
</p>
<subsection name="Early Initialization">
<p>
If a service component is defined as "early-init" the instance
of the service component will be incarnated during startup of the
container.
</p>
</subsection>
<subsection name="Lazy Initialization">
<p>
If a service component is initialized lazily the
implementation class is loaded but incarnation takes
place during the first invocation of ServiceManager.lookup().
</p>
<p>
An invocation of ServiceManager.hasService() will not incarnate
a service component instance.
</p>
</subsection>
<subsection name="Decommisioning">
<p>
The decommisioning of a service component instance result
in exactly the same state as using a lazily initialized service
component. I.e. the implementation class is loaded but no
instance exists
</p>
</subsection>
</section>
</body>
</document>