/* 
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
 * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
 * distributed with this work for additional information
 * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
 * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
 * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
 * specific language governing permissions and limitations
 * under the License.
 */

package org.apache.felix.ipojo.handlers.providedservice.strategy;

import org.apache.felix.ipojo.IPOJOServiceFactory;

/**
 * Extended iPOJOServiceFactory that supports a close() operation.
 * @author <a href="mailto:dev@felix.apache.org">Felix Project Team</a>
 */
public interface ServiceObjectFactory extends IPOJOServiceFactory {

    /**
     * Called when the supporting CreationStrategy is unpublished
     * from the service registry. This allows to do an explicit 
     * cleanup.
     */
    void close();
}