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Apache Commons Daemon software provides an alternative invocation mechanism for unix-daemon-like Java code.

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package org.apache.commons.daemon;


/**
 * Defines a set of methods that a Daemon instance can use to
 * communicate with the Daemon container.
 *
 * @author Pier Fumagalli
 * @version $Id: DaemonContext.java 1204006 2011-11-19 16:09:15Z ggregory $
 */
public interface DaemonContext
{

    /**
     * Returns  DaemonController object that can be used
     * to control the Daemon instance that this
     * DaemonContext is passed to.
     */
    public DaemonController getController();

    /**
     * Returns an array of String arguments supplied by
     * the environment.  corresponding to the array of arguments given
     * in the public static void main() method used as an
     * entry point to most other java programs.
     */
    public String[] getArguments();

}