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author | Peter Mehlitz <Peter.C.Mehlitz@nasa.gov> |
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date | Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:14:01 -0800 |
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/* * Copyright (C) 2014, United States Government, as represented by the * Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. * All rights reserved. * * The Java Pathfinder core (jpf-core) platform is 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 gov.nasa.jpf; /** * type that can be used to instantiate and run a JPF object * Shell objects can be configured via the JPF 'shell' property, and are * typically JPF user interface implementations * * Instantiation and start() call are done from the JPF.main() method * * Usually, JPFShell implementors have a <init>(Config) ctor so that they * don't need to obtain a new Config object. This is the reason for * using a shell *instance* instead of a static main() method - we cannot * pass the Config object that was already created by JPF.main() at this point * into the shell main(), which means we would either have to turn Config * into a singleton (causing problems for multiple JPF runs), or create a new * Config object within the shell. Since initialization of Config objects is * an expensive task with our new bootstrapping, it seems better to pass the * Config object from JPF.main() (which is done automatically when using * Config based initialization) */ public interface JPFShell { void start(String[] args); }