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Pax Wicket Service is an OSGi extension of the Wicket framework, allowing for dynamic loading and unloading of Wicket components and pageSources.

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package org.apache.wicket;

import org.apache.wicket.request.resource.PackageResource;

/**
 * Initializes something when application loads.
 * 
 * Initializer is there for clustering. Lets say you access a page that has a link to a resource on
 * node A now the url for the resource gets forwarded to node B, but node B doesn't have the
 * resource registered yet because maybe the page class hasn't been loaded and so its static block
 * hasn't run yet. So the initializer is a place for you to register all those resources and do all
 * the stuff you used to do in the static blocks.
 * 
 * You don't have to pre-register {@link PackageResource package resources}, as they can be
 * initialized lazily.
 * 
 * 
 * Initializers can be configured by having a wicket.properties file in the class path root, with
 * property 'initializer=${initializer class name}'. You can have one such properties per jar file,
 * but the initializer that property denotes can delegate to other initializers of that library.
 * 
 * 
 * @author Jonathan Locke
 */
public interface IInitializer
{
	/**
	 * @param application
	 *            The application loading the component
	 */
	void init(Application application);


	/**
	 * @param application
	 *            The application loading the component
	 */
	void destroy(Application application);

}