content: /*******************************************************************************
   * Copyright (c) 2009, 2019 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
  	 */
  	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.
  	 */
  	void shutdown();
  
  }
  