/*

  *   SONEWS News Server

  *   see AUTHORS for the list of contributors

  *

  *   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

  *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

  *   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

  *   (at your option) any later version.

  *

  *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

  *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

  *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

  *   GNU General Public License for more details.

  *

  *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

  *   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

  */

 package org.sonews.plugin;

 /**

  * A generic Plugin for sonews. Implementing classes do not really add new

  * functionality to sonews but can use this interface as convenient procedure

  * for installing functionality plugins, e.g. Command-Plugins or Storage-Plugins.

  * @author Christian Lins

  * @since sonews/1.1

  */

 public interface Plugin

 {

   /**

    * Called when the Plugin is loaded by sonews. This method can be used

    * by implementing classes to install additional or required plugins.

    */

   void load();

   /**

    * Called when the Plugin is unloaded by sonews.

    */

   void unload();

 }