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013package org.apache.tapestry5.services;
014
015import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.ObjectLocator;
016
017/**
018 * Manages a set of {@link org.apache.tapestry5.services.UpdateListener}s. Periodically (say, every request during
019 * development, or every minute or so during production), request processing is locked down so that only a single thread
020 * is active, and the active thread invokes {@link #fireCheckForUpdates()}. Various services that are dependent on
021 * external resource files (such as classes or template files) can check to see if any file they've used has changed. If
022 * so, the service can invalidate its internal cache, or notify other services (typically via
023 * {@link org.apache.tapestry5.services.InvalidationListener} that they should do the same.
024 *
025 * Note that this interface has moved from module tapestry-core to tapestry-ioc, but has kept the same package (for
026 * backwards compatibility reasons).
027 *
028 * A <em>weak reference</em> to the listener is kept; this ensures that registering as a listener will not prevent a
029 * listener instance from being reclaimed by the garbage collector (this is useful as proxies created by
030 * {@link ObjectLocator#proxy(Class, Class)} may register as listeners, but still be ephemeral).
031 *
032 * Starting in Tapestry 5.3, this services does <em>nothing</em> in production mode.
033 * 
034 * @since 5.1.0.0
035 */
036public interface UpdateListenerHub
037{
038    /**
039     * Adds a listener.
040     */
041    void addUpdateListener(UpdateListener listener);
042
043    /**
044     * Invoked periodically to allow services to check if underlying state has changed. For example, a template file may
045     * have changed. Listeners will typically notify applicable listeners of their own (they usually implement
046     * {@link org.apache.tapestry5.services.InvalidationEventHub}) when such a change occurs.
047     */
048    void fireCheckForUpdates();
049}