/*
 * Copyright 2005-2008 Les Hazlewood, Jeremy Haile
 *
 * Licensed 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.jsecurity.util;

import org.jsecurity.JSecurityException;

/**
 * JSecurity container-agnostic interface that indicates that this object requires initialization.
 *
 * @see org.jsecurity.spring.LifecycleBeanPostProcessor
 * 
 * @since 0.2
 * @author Les Hazlewood
 * @author Jeremy Haile
 */
public interface Initializable {

    /**
     * Initializes this object.
     * @throws JSecurityException if an exception occurs during initialization.
     */
    void init() throws JSecurityException;
    
}