org.dspace.kernel.mixins
Interface OrderedService

All Known Subinterfaces:

RequestInterceptor

public interface OrderedService

Permit the service or provider to be ordered against other classes that implement the same interface (not this one). Classes that do not implement this interface may be initialized in any order.

Author:

Aaron Zeckoski (azeckoski @ gmail.com)

Method Summary

int	getOrder() Sets the order to load the bean which implements this method compared to other beans of the same type.

Method Detail

getOrder

int getOrder()

Sets the order to load the bean which implements this method compared to other beans of the same type. Lower orders (numbers) will be loaded first (i.e. order 1 will appear before order 3 in the list). Orders do not have to be consecutive (there can be gaps). Beans with the same order or beans with no order set will be ordered randomly.

Returns:

an int which represents the loading order