/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2009, 2017 Mountainminds GmbH & Co. KG and Contributors
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Marc R. Hoffmann - initial API and implementation
*
*******************************************************************************/
package org.jacoco.core.runtime;
/**
* This interface represents a particular mechanism to collect execution
* information in the target VM at runtime.
*/
public interface IRuntime extends IExecutionDataAccessorGenerator {
/**
* Starts the coverage runtime. This method MUST be called before any class
* instrumented for this runtime is loaded.
*
* @param data
* the execution data for this runtime
* @throws Exception
* any internal problem during startup
*/
public void startup(RuntimeData data) throws Exception;
/**
* Allows the coverage runtime to cleanup internals. This class should be
* called when classes instrumented for this runtime are not used any more.
*/
public void shutdown();
}