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package org.apache.activemq;


/**
 * The core lifecyle interface for ActiveMQ components.
 *  
 * If there was a standard way to do so, it'd be good to register this 
 * interface with Spring so it treats the start/stop methods as those of
 * {@link org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean} 
 * and {@link org.springframework.beans.factory.DisposableBean}
 * 
 * 
 */
public interface Service {

    void start() throws Exception;
    
    void stop() throws Exception;
    
}
