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package jakarta.servlet;

import java.util.Set;

/**
 * Interface which allows a library/runtime to be notified of a web application's startup phase and perform any required
 * programmatic registration of servlets, filters, and listeners in response to it.
 *
 * <p>
 * Implementations of this interface may be annotated with {@link jakarta.servlet.annotation.HandlesTypes HandlesTypes},
 * in order to receive (at their {@link #onStartup} method) the Set of application classes that implement, extend, or
 * have been annotated with the class types specified by the annotation.
 * 
 * <p>
 * If an implementation of this interface does not use <tt>HandlesTypes</tt> annotation, or none of the application
 * classes match the ones specified by the annotation, the container must pass a <tt>null</tt> Set of classes to
 * {@link #onStartup}.
 *
 * <p>
 * When examining the classes of an application to see if they match any of the criteria specified by the
 * <tt>HandlesTypes</tt> annotation of a <tt>ServletContainerInitializer</tt>, the container may run into classloading
 * problems if any of the application's optional JAR files are missing. Because the container is not in a position to
 * decide whether these types of classloading failures will prevent the application from working correctly, it must
 * ignore them, while at the same time providing a configuration option that would log them.
 *
 * <p>
 * Implementations of this interface must be declared by a JAR file resource located inside the
 * <tt>META-INF/services</tt> directory and named for the fully qualified class name of this interface, and will be
 * discovered using the runtime's service provider lookup mechanism or a container specific mechanism that is
 * semantically equivalent to it. In either case, <tt>ServletContainerInitializer</tt> services from web fragment JAR
 * files excluded from an absolute ordering must be ignored, and the order in which these services are discovered must
 * follow the application's classloading delegation model.
 *
 * @see jakarta.servlet.annotation.HandlesTypes
 *
 * @since Servlet 3.0
 */
public interface ServletContainerInitializer {

    /**
     * Notifies this <tt>ServletContainerInitializer</tt> of the startup of the application represented by the given
     * <tt>ServletContext</tt>.
     *
     * <p>
     * If this <tt>ServletContainerInitializer</tt> is bundled in a JAR file inside the <tt>WEB-INF/lib</tt> directory of an
     * application, its <tt>onStartup</tt> method will be invoked only once during the startup of the bundling application.
     * If this <tt>ServletContainerInitializer</tt> is bundled inside a JAR file outside of any <tt>WEB-INF/lib</tt>
     * directory, but still discoverable as described above, its <tt>onStartup</tt> method will be invoked every time an
     * application is started.
     *
     * @param c the Set of application classes that extend, implement, or have been annotated with the class types specified
     * by the {@link jakarta.servlet.annotation.HandlesTypes HandlesTypes} annotation, or <tt>null</tt> if there are no
     * matches, or this <tt>ServletContainerInitializer</tt> has not been annotated with <tt>HandlesTypes</tt>
     *
     * @param ctx the <tt>ServletContext</tt> of the web application that is being started and in which the classes
     * contained in <tt>c</tt> were found
     *
     * @throws ServletException if an error has occurred
     */
    public void onStartup(Set<Class<?>> c, ServletContext ctx) throws ServletException;
}