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      1 /*******************************************************************************
      2  * Copyright (c) 2009, 2018 Mountainminds GmbH & Co. KG and Contributors
      3  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
      4  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
      5  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
      6  * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
      7  *
      8  * Contributors:
      9  *    Marc R. Hoffmann - initial API and implementation
     10  *
     11  *******************************************************************************/
     12 package org.jacoco.core.runtime;
     13 
     14 /**
     15  * This interface represents a particular mechanism to collect execution
     16  * information in the target VM at runtime.
     17  */
     18 public interface IRuntime extends IExecutionDataAccessorGenerator {
     19 
     20 	/**
     21 	 * Starts the coverage runtime. This method MUST be called before any class
     22 	 * instrumented for this runtime is loaded.
     23 	 *
     24 	 * @param data
     25 	 *            the execution data for this runtime
     26 	 * @throws Exception
     27 	 *             any internal problem during startup
     28 	 */
     29 	public void startup(RuntimeData data) throws Exception;
     30 
     31 	/**
     32 	 * Allows the coverage runtime to cleanup internals. This class should be
     33 	 * called when classes instrumented for this runtime are not used any more.
     34 	 */
     35 	public void shutdown();
     36 
     37 }
     38