This interface allows an application manager to create, initialize, start, pause, and destroy an Xlet. An Xlet is an application or service designed to be run and controlled by an application manager via this lifecycle interface. The lifecycle states allow the application manager to manage the activities of multiple Xlets within a runtime environment selecting which Xlets are active at a given time. The application manager maintains the state of the Xlet and invokes method on the Xlet via the lifecycle methods. The Xlet implements these methods to update its internal activities and resource usage as directed by the application manager. The Xlet can initiate some state changes itself and informs the application manager of those state changes by invoking methods on
XletContext.
In order to support interoperability between Xlets and application managers, all Xlet classes must provide a public no-argument constructor.
Note: The methods on this interface are meant to signal state changes. The state change is not considered complete until the state change method has returned. It is intended that these methods return quickly.
@see XletContext