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+/*******************************************************************************\r
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, 2010 Association for Decentralized Information Management\r
+ * in Industry THTH ry.\r
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials\r
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0\r
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at\r
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html\r
+ *\r
+ * Contributors:\r
+ * VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - initial API and implementation\r
+ *******************************************************************************/\r
+package org.simantics.db;\r
+\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * An interface that services registered via {@link ServiceLocator} can\r
+ * implement to signal the ServiceLocator implementation that they need to be\r
+ * disposed during ServiceLocator disposal.\r
+ * \r
+ * The {@link #dispose()} method may get called several times which it must be\r
+ * able to handle properly which in most cases means just disposing once with\r
+ * proper synchronization and ignoring any further dispose requests.\r
+ * \r
+ * @author Tuukka Lehtonen\r
+ */\r
+public interface Disposable {\r
+\r
+ void dispose();\r
+\r
+}\r