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package org.jboss.errai.ioc.client.container;

import org.jboss.errai.ioc.client.api.ActivatedBy;
import org.jboss.errai.ioc.client.api.LoadAsync;

/**
 * Provides a runtime mechanism to check whether or not a managed bean is activated (see
 * {@link ActivatedBy}).
 * 
 * Note that the managed IOC bean can be asynchronously loaded (when annotated with
 * {@link LoadAsync}), but the activator itself can not.
 * 
 * @author Christian Sadilek <csadilek@redhat.com>
 */
public interface BeanActivator {

  /**
   * @return true if the managed bean is activated, otherwise false.
   */
  public boolean isActivated();
}
