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+/**
+ *
+ *  Copyright 2005 The Apache Software Foundation or its licensors, as applicable.
+ *
+ *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ *  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ *  limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.osoa.sca;
+
+/**
+ * Class providing access to an SCA implementation.
+ * SCA implementation providers may allow applications to bootstrap an SCA environment
+ * by providing a publically available subclass.
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public abstract class SCA {
+    /**
+     * Protected method that allows an SCA implementation to set the current module context
+     * that will be returned by {@link org.osoa.sca.CurrentModuleContext#getContext()}.
+     *
+     * @param ctx the new current module context
+     */
+    protected static void setModuleContext(ModuleContext ctx) {
+        CurrentModuleContext.setContext(ctx);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Start the SCA implementation.
+     * If this method completes successfully then a module context will be associated with the current thread.
+     */
+    public abstract void start();
+
+    /**
+     * Stop the SCA implementation.
+     * Once this method completes (successfully or abnormally) then no module context will be associated
+     * with the current thread.
+     */
+    public abstract void stop();
+}