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[37/51] [abbrv] [partial] zest-java git commit: Revert "First round of changes to move to org.apache.zest namespace."

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.entity;
+
+import org.qi4j.api.injection.scope.State;
+import org.qi4j.api.mixin.Mixins;
+import org.qi4j.api.property.Immutable;
+import org.qi4j.api.property.Property;
+
+/**
+ * This interface provides the identity of the object which may be used
+ * to store the state in a database. It is not the responsibility of the
+ * framework to come up with a good identity string.
+ */
+@Mixins( Identity.IdentityMixin.class )
+public interface Identity
+{
+    /**
+     * Returns the client view of the identity.
+     * <p>
+     * It is unique within the owning repository, but potentially not unique globally and between
+     * types.
+     * </p>
+     * @return The Identity of 'this' composite.
+     */
+    @Immutable
+    Property<String> identity();
+
+    /**
+     * Default Identity implementation.
+     */
+    class IdentityMixin
+        implements Identity
+    {
+        @State
+        private Property<String> identity;
+
+        @Override
+        public Property<String> identity()
+        {
+            return identity;
+        }
+    }
+}

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+/*  Copyright 2007 Niclas Hedhman.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.entity;
+
+/**
+ * Generator for identities of EntityComposite's.
+ */
+public interface IdentityGenerator
+{
+    /**
+     * Generate a new id for the given Composite type
+     *
+     * @param compositeType the type of composite
+     *
+     * @return a new identity
+     */
+    String generate( Class<?> compositeType );
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.entity;
+
+/**
+ * Lifecycle interface for all Composites.
+ * <p>
+ * This Lifecycle interface is a built-in feature of the Zest runtime, similar to the Initializable interface.
+ * Any Mixin that implements this interface AND is part of an EntityComposite will have these two methods called
+ * upon creation/removal of the EntityComposite instance to/from the EntityStore. Meaning, the create method is called
+ * only when the identifiable EntityComposite is created the first time, and not when it is read from its persisted
+ * state and created into memory.
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * Example;
+ * </p>
+ * <pre><code>
+ * public interface System
+ * {
+ *     Property&lt;User&gt; admin();
+ * }
+ *
+ * public class SystemAdminMixin&lt;LifeCycle&gt;
+ *     implements System, Lifecyle, ...
+ * {
+ *      &#64;Structure private UnitOfWork uow;
+ *      &#64;This private Identity meAsIdentity;
+ *
+ *      public void create()
+ *      {
+ *          String thisId = meAsIdentity.identity().get();
+ *          EntityBuilder builder = uow.newEntityBuilder( thisId + ":1", UserComposite.class );
+ *          User admin = builder.newInstance();
+ *          admin.set( admin );
+ *      }
+ *
+ *      public void remove()
+ *      {
+ *          uow.remove( admin.get() );
+ *      }
+ * }
+ *
+ * &#64;Mixins( SystemAdminMixin.class )
+ * public interface SystemEntity extends System, EntityComposite
+ * {}
+ *
+ * </code></pre>
+ */
+public interface Lifecycle
+{
+
+    /**
+     * Creation callback method.
+     * <p>
+     * Called by the Zest runtime before the newInstance of the entity completes, before the constraints are checked,
+     * allowing for additional initialization.
+     * </p>
+     * @throws LifecycleException if the entity could not be created
+     */
+    void create()
+        throws LifecycleException;
+
+    /**
+     * Removal callback method.
+     * <p>
+     * Called by the Zest runtime before the entity is removed from the system, allowing
+     * for clean-up operations.
+     * </p>
+     * @throws LifecycleException if the entity could not be removed
+     */
+    void remove()
+        throws LifecycleException;
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2008, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.entity;
+
+/**
+ * Thrown by methods of Lifecycle if invocation fails
+ */
+public class LifecycleException
+    extends RuntimeException
+{
+    public LifecycleException( String s )
+    {
+        super( s );
+    }
+
+    public LifecycleException( String s, Throwable throwable )
+    {
+        super( s, throwable );
+    }
+
+    public LifecycleException( Throwable throwable )
+    {
+        super( throwable );
+    }
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2008, Alin Dreghiciu. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.entity;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+/**
+ * This annotation is used to mark entity types or properties/associations that are indexable.
+ */
+@Retention( RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME )
+@Target( { ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.METHOD } )
+@Documented
+public @interface Queryable
+{
+    boolean value() default true;
+}
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+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+The ASF licenses this file to You 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.
+-->
+<html>
+    <body>
+        <h2>Entity API.</h2>
+    </body>
+</html>

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+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+The ASF licenses this file to You 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.
+-->
+<html>
+    <body>
+        <h2>Event API.</h2>
+    </body>
+</html>

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.injection;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+/**
+ * This is used to annotate annotation types which are used for injection.
+ * Each scope signifies a particular scope from which the injection value should be taken.
+ */
+@Retention( RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME )
+@Target( { ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE } )
+@Documented
+public @interface InjectionScope
+{
+}
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+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+The ASF licenses this file to You 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.
+-->
+<html>
+    <body>
+        <h2>Dependency Injection API.</h2>
+    </body>
+</html>

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.injection.scope;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+import org.qi4j.api.injection.InjectionScope;
+
+/**
+ * Annotation to denote the injection of a
+ * invocation specific resource.
+ * These include:
+ * <pre><code>
+ *  - The Method being invoked.
+ *
+ *  - An AnnotationElement with annotations
+ *    from both mixin type, mixin
+ *    implementation.
+ *
+ *  - An Annotation of a specific type
+ * </code></pre>
+ * Examples:
+ * <pre><code>
+ * &#64;Invocation Method theInvokedMethod
+ * &#64;Invocation AnnotationElement annotations
+ * &#64;Invocation Matches matchesAnnotation
+ * </code></pre>
+ */
+@Retention( RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME )
+@Target( { ElementType.FIELD, ElementType.PARAMETER } )
+@Documented
+@InjectionScope
+public @interface Invocation
+{
+}
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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.injection.scope;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+import org.qi4j.api.injection.InjectionScope;
+
+/**
+ * Annotation to denote the injection of a service dependency into a Fragment.
+ * <p>
+ * Examples:
+ * </p>
+ * <pre><code>
+ * &#64;Service MyService service
+ * &#64;Service Iterable&lt;MyService&gt; services
+ * &#64;Service ServiceReference&lt;MyService&gt; serviceRef
+ * &#64;Service Iterable&lt;ServiceReference&lt;MyService&gt;&gt; serviceRefs
+ * </code></pre>
+ */
+@Retention( RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME )
+@Target( { ElementType.FIELD, ElementType.PARAMETER } )
+@Documented
+@InjectionScope
+public @interface Service
+{
+}
+

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.injection.scope;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+import org.qi4j.api.injection.InjectionScope;
+
+/**
+ * Annotation to denote the injection of a property, association or
+ * StateHolder.
+ * <pre><code>
+ * &#64;State Property&lt;StringState propertyName;
+ * &#64;State Association&lt;MyEntityState associationName;
+ * &#64;State ManyAssociation&lt;MyEntityState manyAssociationName;
+ * &#64;State NamedAssociation&lt;MyEntityState namedAssociationName;
+ * &#64;State StateHolder state;
+ * &#64;State AssociationStateHolder associationState;
+ * </code></pre>
+ */
+@Retention( RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME )
+@Target( { ElementType.FIELD, ElementType.PARAMETER } )
+@Documented
+@InjectionScope
+public @interface State
+{
+    /**
+     * Name of the property or association.
+     * If not set then name will be name of field.
+     *
+     * @return the name
+     */
+    public abstract String value() default "";
+}
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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.injection.scope;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+import org.qi4j.api.injection.InjectionScope;
+
+/**
+ * Annotation to denote the injection of a
+ * resource specific for the module which the
+ * injected object/fragment is instantiated in.
+ * <p>
+ * Valid types are:
+ * </p>
+ * <pre><code>
+ * - TransientBuilderFactory
+ * - ObjectBuilderFactory
+ * - UnitOfWorkFactory
+ * - ServiceFinder
+ * - Module
+ * - Layer
+ * - Application
+ * - Qi4j
+ * - Qi4jSPI
+ * </code></pre>
+ */
+@Retention( RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME )
+@Target( { ElementType.FIELD, ElementType.PARAMETER } )
+@Documented
+@InjectionScope
+public @interface Structure
+{
+}
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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.injection.scope;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+import org.qi4j.api.injection.InjectionScope;
+
+/**
+ * Annotation to denote the injection of a reference to the same Composite
+ * as the fragment is a part of.
+ * <p>
+ * If the Composite type does not implement the type of the field or parameter
+ * then it will be referencing a private mixin.
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * Calls to the reference will have the same semantics as calls to the Composite itself.
+ * Specifically the same set of Modifiers will be used.
+ * </p>
+ */
+@Retention( RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME )
+@Target( { ElementType.FIELD, ElementType.PARAMETER } )
+@Documented
+@InjectionScope
+public @interface This
+{
+}
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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.injection.scope;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+import org.qi4j.api.injection.InjectionScope;
+
+/**
+ * Annotation to denote the injection of a dependency to be used by a Mixin. The injected
+ * object is provided either by the TransientBuilder.uses() declarations, or if an instance of the appropriate types is not
+ * found, then a new Transient or Object is instantiated.
+ * Call {@link org.qi4j.api.composite.TransientBuilder#use} to provide the instance
+ * to be injected.
+ *
+ * Example:
+ * <pre>@Uses SomeType someInstance</pre>
+ */
+@Retention( RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME )
+@Target( { ElementType.PARAMETER, ElementType.FIELD } )
+@Documented
+@InjectionScope
+public @interface Uses
+{
+}
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+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+The ASF licenses this file to You 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.
+-->
+<html>
+    <body>
+        <h2>Dependency Injection Scopes.</h2>
+    </body>
+</html>

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.metrics;
+
+/**
+ * Marker interface for all Metric types.
+ */
+public interface Metric
+{
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.metrics;
+
+/**
+ * Metrics Counter.
+ */
+public interface MetricsCounter extends Metric
+{
+    void increment();
+
+    void increment( int steps );
+
+    void decrement();
+
+    void decrement( int steps );
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.metrics;
+
+/**
+ * Create MetricsCounter instances.
+ */
+public interface MetricsCounterFactory extends MetricsFactory
+{
+    /**
+     * Create a MetricsCounter instance.
+     * If the same arguments are given twice, the same instance must be returned.
+     *
+     * @param origin The class that instantiate the metric
+     * @param name   A human readable, short name of the metric.
+     *
+     * @return A Metric instance to be used, OR org.qi4j.spi.metrics.DefaultMetric.NULL if not supported.
+     */
+    MetricsCounter createCounter( Class<?> origin, String name );
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.metrics;
+
+/**
+ * Metrics Factory.
+ */
+public interface MetricsFactory
+{
+    Iterable<Metric> registered();
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.metrics;
+
+/**
+ * MetricsGauge is the most basic Metric type, and is completely flexible and therefor handled slightly differently in
+ * the MetricsFactory than all other Gauges. It needs to pass on custom code, so the implementation is typically
+ * an anonymous class, inlined at the implementation.
+ *
+ * @param <T> Any type holding the MetricsGauge's current value.
+ */
+public interface MetricsGauge<T> extends Metric
+{
+    /**
+     * Returns the metric's current value.
+     *
+     * @return the metric's current value
+     */
+    T value();
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.metrics;
+
+/**
+ * Register MetricsGauge with the underlying Metrics system.
+ */
+public interface MetricsGaugeFactory extends MetricsFactory
+{
+    /**
+     * Register a MetricsGauge with the underlying Metrics system.
+     *
+     * @param origin The class where the MetricsGauge is created.
+     * @param name   A human readable, short name of the metric.
+     * @param gauge  The implementation of the MetricsGauge.
+     * @param <T>    Any type holding the MetricsGauge's current value.
+     *
+     * @return The same MetricsGauge or the DefaultMetric.NULL MetricsGauge instance.
+     */
+    <T> MetricsGauge<T> registerGauge( Class<?> origin, String name, MetricsGauge<T> gauge );
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.metrics;
+
+/**
+ * Metrics Health Check.
+ */
+public interface MetricsHealthCheck extends Metric
+{
+    Result check()
+        throws Exception;
+
+    public final class Result
+    {
+        private final boolean healthy;
+        private final String message;
+        private final Throwable exception;
+
+        public Result( boolean isHealthy, String message, Throwable exception )
+        {
+            healthy = isHealthy;
+            this.message = message;
+            this.exception = exception;
+        }
+
+        public boolean isHealthy()
+        {
+            return healthy;
+        }
+
+        public String getMessage()
+        {
+            return message;
+        }
+
+        public Throwable getException()
+        {
+            return exception;
+        }
+    }
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.metrics;
+
+/**
+ * Create MetricsHealthCheck instances.
+ */
+public interface MetricsHealthCheckFactory extends MetricsFactory
+{
+    /**
+     * Create a MetricsHealthCheck instance.
+     * If the same arguments are given twice, the same instance must be returned.
+     *
+     * @param origin The class that instantiate the metric
+     * @param name   A human readable, short name of the metric.
+     * @param check  The health check to be performed regularly.
+     *
+     * @return A MetricsHealthCheck instance to be used, OR org.qi4j.spi.metrics.DefaultMetric.NULL if not supported.
+     *
+     */
+    MetricsHealthCheck registerHealthCheck( Class<?> origin, String name, MetricsHealthCheck check );
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.metrics;
+
+/**
+ * A metric which calculates the distribution of a value.
+ *
+ * @see <a href="http://www.johndcook.com/standard_deviation.html">Accurately computing running
+ *      variance</a>
+ */
+public interface MetricsHistogram extends Metric
+{
+    void update( long newValue );
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.metrics;
+
+/**
+ * Create MetricsHistogram instances.
+ */
+public interface MetricsHistogramFactory extends MetricsFactory
+{
+    /**
+     * Create a MetricsHistogram instance.
+     * If the same arguments are given twice, the same instance must be returned.
+     *
+     * @param origin The class that instantiate the metric
+     * @param name   A human readable, short name of the metric.
+     *
+     * @return A Metric instance to be used, OR org.qi4j.spi.metrics.DefaultMetric.NULL if not supported.
+     *
+     */
+    MetricsHistogram createHistogram( Class<?> origin, String name );
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.metrics;
+
+/**
+ * A meter metric which measures mean throughput and one-, five-, and fifteen-minute
+ * exponentially-weighted moving average throughputs.
+ *
+ * @see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_average#Exponential_moving_average">EMA</a>
+ */
+public interface MetricsMeter extends Metric
+{
+    void mark();
+
+    /**
+     * Mark the occurrence of a given number of events.
+     *
+     * @param numberOfEvents the number of events
+     */
+    void mark( int numberOfEvents );
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.metrics;
+
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+
+/**
+ * Create MetricsMeter instances.
+ */
+public interface MetricsMeterFactory extends MetricsFactory
+{
+    /**
+     * Create a MetricsMeter instance.
+     * If the same arguments are given twice, the same instance must be returned.
+     *
+     * @param origin    The class that instantiate the metric
+     * @param name      A human readable, short name of the metric.
+     * @param eventType the plural name of the event the meter is measuring (e.g., {@code "requests"})
+     * @param rate      the scale unit for this timer's rate metrics
+     *
+     * @return A Metric instance to be used, OR org.qi4j.spi.metrics.DefaultMetric.NULL if not supported.
+     */
+    MetricsMeter createMeter( Class<?> origin, String name, String eventType, TimeUnit rate );
+}

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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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.qi4j.api.metrics;
+
+/**
+ * Thrown when the underlying MetricsProvider do not support a Metric type.
+ */
+public class MetricsNotSupportedException extends RuntimeException
+{
+    public MetricsNotSupportedException( Class<? extends MetricsFactory> factoryType,
+                                         Class<? extends MetricsProvider> providerType
+    )
+    {
+        super( "Metrics [" + factoryType.getName() + "] is not supported by MetricsProvider [" + providerType.getName() + "]." );
+    }
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.metrics;
+
+/**
+ * Metrics Provider SPI.
+ * <p>
+ * The Zest Runtime will automatically ook for a service that implements the MetricsProvider interdace
+ * and use it for internal Runtime metrics, such as the UnitOfWork measuring the time from creation to close.
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * The Metrics Library is available to add metric functionality to applications in the same way, and
+ * will use the same MetricsProvider.
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * Note that the usual visibitlity rules applies, so you might have more than one MetricsProvider server,
+ * perhaps per layer.
+ * </p>
+ */
+public interface MetricsProvider
+{
+    /**
+     * Creates a new factory instance.
+     *
+     * The instanctiation is done by providing a Metric type, which is one of
+     * <ul>
+     * <li>{@link MetricsCounter}</li>
+     * <li>{@link MetricsGauge}</li>
+     * <li>{@link MetricsHealthCheck}</li>
+     * <li>{@link MetricsHistogram}</li>
+     * <li>{@link MetricsMeter}</li>
+     * <li>{@link MetricsTimer}</li>
+     * </ul>
+     *
+     * @param factoryType The class of the metric type needed.
+     * @param <T>         The metric type requested.
+     *
+     * @return A factory instance
+     *
+     * @throws MetricsNotSupportedException when the MetricsProvider is not supporting the factory type requested.
+     */
+    <T extends MetricsFactory> T createFactory( Class<T> factoryType )
+        throws MetricsNotSupportedException;
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.metrics;
+
+/**
+ * Timer Metrics.
+ */
+public interface MetricsTimer extends Metric
+{
+    /**
+     * Start the Timer Metrics.
+     */
+    Context start();
+
+    /**
+     * Timer Metrics Context.
+     */
+    public interface Context
+    {
+        /**
+         * Stop the Timer Metrics.
+         */
+        void stop();
+    }
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.metrics;
+
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+
+/**
+ * Create MetricsTimer instances.
+ */
+public interface MetricsTimerFactory extends MetricsFactory
+{
+    /**
+     * Create a MetricsTimer instance.
+     * If the same arguments are given twice, the same instance must be returned.
+     *
+     * @param origin   The class that instantiate the metric
+     * @param name     A human readable, short name of the metric.
+     * @param duration the scale unit for this timer's duration metrics
+     * @param rate     the scale unit for this timer's rate metrics
+     *
+     * @return A Metric instance to be used, OR org.qi4j.spi.metrics.DefaultMetric.NULL if not supported.
+     *
+     */
+    MetricsTimer createTimer( Class<?> origin, String name, TimeUnit duration, TimeUnit rate );
+}

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+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+The ASF licenses this file to You 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.
+-->
+<html>
+    <body>
+        <h2>Metrics API.</h2>
+    </body>
+</html>

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2008, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.mixin;
+
+/**
+ * Fragments which want to be initialized can implement
+ * this callback interface. It will be invoked after
+ * the fragment has bee instantiated and all injections have been done.
+ */
+public interface Initializable
+{
+    /**
+     * Initialize the fragment
+     *
+     * @throws org.qi4j.api.mixin.InitializationException
+     *          if something went wrong
+     */
+    void initialize()
+        throws InitializationException;
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.mixin;
+
+/**
+ * Thrown when a Fragment or object could not be instantiated.
+ */
+public class InitializationException
+    extends RuntimeException
+{
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+    public InitializationException()
+    {
+    }
+
+    public InitializationException( String message )
+    {
+        super( message );
+    }
+
+    public InitializationException( String message, Throwable cause )
+    {
+        super( message, cause );
+    }
+
+    public InitializationException( Throwable cause )
+    {
+        super( cause );
+    }
+}
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2009 Niclas Hedhman.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.mixin;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+
+/**
+ * This exception is thrown if a Mixin is invalid (missing method implementation).
+ */
+public class InvalidMixinException
+    extends RuntimeException
+{
+    public InvalidMixinException( Class mixinClass, Method method )
+    {
+        super( mixinClass.getName() + "does not have a method implementation for " + method );
+    }
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2008, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.mixin;
+
+/**
+ * Mixin Descriptor.
+ */
+public interface MixinDescriptor
+{
+    Class<?> mixinClass();
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2008 Niclas Hedhman. All rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.mixin;
+
+/**
+ * This Exception is thrown when it is not possible to map the MixinType to a valid
+ * CompositeType.
+ */
+public class MixinMappingException
+    extends RuntimeException
+{
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 6843167709252705294L;
+
+    public MixinMappingException( String message )
+    {
+        super( message );
+    }
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.mixin;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+/**
+ * This annotation is used in composites to declare mixin implementation classes.
+ * <p>
+ * Mixins tells the runtime which implementation class of a Mixin should be
+ * used. The &#64;Mixins annotation can occur at any level in the composite hierarchy
+ * and the runtime will match each found Mixin implementation against a Mixins annotation.
+ * All mixin interfaces must have a Mixin implementation in the composite hierarchy or
+ * a runtime exception will occur.
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * Example;
+ * </p>
+ * <pre><code>
+ *
+ * &#64;Mixins( MyBeerOrder.class )
+ * public interface BeerOrderComposite extends BeerOrder, Composite
+ * {
+ * }
+ *
+ * public class MyBeerOrder
+ * implements BeerOrder
+ * {
+ * :
+ * }
+ * </code></pre>
+ * <p>
+ * Many implementations can be listed,
+ * </p>
+ * <pre><code>
+ * &#64;Mixins( { MyBeerOrder.class, DescriptionImpl.class } )
+ * public interface BeerOrderComposite extends BeerOrder, Description, Composite
+ * {
+ * }
+ * </code></pre>
+ * <p>
+ * If the Mixins is a class that implements InvocationHandler, it will be
+ * used for all mixins. To avoid that an invocation handler based implementation
+ * not service all mixin, use the AppliesTo annotation.
+ * </p>
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * It is valid to have multiple Mixins for a mixin. The first one found
+ * will be used. The search order is in the order they are written in the Mixins
+ * annotation left-to-right, and depth-first recursive search of the super-interfaces again
+ * left-to-right.
+ * </p>
+ *
+ * @see org.qi4j.api.common.AppliesTo
+ */
+@Retention( RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME )
+@Target( ElementType.TYPE )
+@Documented
+public @interface Mixins
+{
+    Class<?>[] value();
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2008, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.mixin;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationHandler;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+
+/**
+ * Generic mixin that is a no-op. Can be useful if the functionality
+ * of a method is mainly provided by concerns and side-effects.
+ */
+public final class NoopMixin
+    implements InvocationHandler
+{
+    private static final Boolean BOOLEAN_DEFAULT = Boolean.FALSE;
+    private static final Short SHORT_DEFAULT = 0;
+    private static final Character CHARACTER_DEFAULT = 0;
+    private static final Integer INTEGER_DEFAULT = 0;
+    private static final Long LONG_DEFAULT = 0L;
+    private static final Float FLOAT_DEFAULT = 0f;
+    private static final Double DOUBLE_DEFAULT = 0.0;
+
+    @Override
+    public Object invoke( Object object, Method method, Object[] args )
+        throws Throwable
+    {
+        Class<?> retType = method.getReturnType();
+        if( !retType.isPrimitive() )
+        {
+            return null;
+        }
+        if( Void.TYPE == retType )
+        {
+            return null;
+        }
+        if( Boolean.TYPE == retType )
+        {
+            return BOOLEAN_DEFAULT;
+        }
+        if( Short.TYPE == retType )
+        {
+            return SHORT_DEFAULT;
+        }
+        if( Character.TYPE == retType )
+        {
+            return CHARACTER_DEFAULT;
+        }
+        if( Integer.TYPE == retType )
+        {
+            return INTEGER_DEFAULT;
+        }
+        if( Long.TYPE == retType )
+        {
+            return LONG_DEFAULT;
+        }
+        if( Float.TYPE == retType )
+        {
+            return FLOAT_DEFAULT;
+        }
+        if( Double.TYPE == retType )
+        {
+            return DOUBLE_DEFAULT;
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+}

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+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+The ASF licenses this file to You 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.
+-->
+<html>
+    <body>
+        <h2>Mixin API.</h2>
+    </body>
+</html>

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2008, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.object;
+
+import org.qi4j.api.common.InvalidApplicationException;
+
+/**
+ * This exception is thrown if no visible Object of the requested type can be found.
+ */
+public class NoSuchObjectException
+    extends InvalidApplicationException
+{
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = -1121690536365682511L;
+
+    private final String objectType;
+    private final String moduleName;
+
+    public NoSuchObjectException( String type, String moduleName )
+    {
+        super( "Could not find any visible Object of type [" + type + "] in module [" +
+               moduleName + "]." );
+        this.objectType = type;
+        this.moduleName = moduleName;
+    }
+
+    public String objectType()
+    {
+        return objectType;
+    }
+
+    public String moduleName()
+    {
+        return moduleName;
+    }
+}
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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.object;
+
+import org.qi4j.api.composite.ModelDescriptor;
+
+/**
+ * Object Descriptor.
+ */
+public interface ObjectDescriptor
+    extends ModelDescriptor
+{
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, Niclas Hedhman. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.object;
+
+import org.qi4j.api.common.ConstructionException;
+
+/**
+ * This factory creates and injects POJO's.
+ */
+public interface ObjectFactory
+{
+    /**
+     * Create new objects of the given type.
+     *
+     * @param type an object class which will be instantiated.
+     *
+     * @return new objects.
+     *
+     * @throws ConstructionException Thrown if instantiation fails.
+     * @throws NoSuchObjectException Thrown if {@code type} class is not an object.
+     */
+    <T> T newObject( Class<T> type, Object... uses )
+        throws NoSuchObjectException, ConstructionException;
+
+    /**
+     * Inject an existing instance. Only fields and methods will be called.
+     *
+     * @param instance
+     *
+     * @throws ConstructionException
+     */
+    void injectTo( Object instance, Object... uses )
+        throws ConstructionException;
+}
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+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+The ASF licenses this file to You 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.
+-->
+<html>
+    <body>
+        <h2>Object API.</h2>
+    </body>
+</html>

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+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+The ASF licenses this file to You 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.
+-->
+<html>
+    <body>
+        <h2>Apache Zest™ API.</h2>
+    </body>
+</html>

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/zest-java/blob/a789141d/core/api/src/main/java/org/qi4j/api/property/DefaultValues.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2008, Michael Hunger. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.property;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType;
+import java.lang.reflect.Type;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+/**
+ * Default values for various property types
+ */
+public final class DefaultValues
+{
+    private static final Map<Type, Object> DEFAULT_VALUES = new HashMap<Type, Object>();
+
+    static
+    {
+        DEFAULT_VALUES.put( Byte.class, 0 );
+        DEFAULT_VALUES.put( Short.class, 0 );
+        DEFAULT_VALUES.put( Character.class, 0 );
+        DEFAULT_VALUES.put( Integer.class, 0 );
+        DEFAULT_VALUES.put( Long.class, 0L );
+        DEFAULT_VALUES.put( Double.class, 0D );
+        DEFAULT_VALUES.put( Float.class, 0F );
+        DEFAULT_VALUES.put( Boolean.class, false );
+        DEFAULT_VALUES.put( String.class, "" );
+    }
+
+    public static Object getDefaultValueOf( Type type )
+    {
+        Object value = DEFAULT_VALUES.get( type );
+        if( value != null )
+        {
+            return value;
+        }
+        if( type instanceof ParameterizedType )
+        {
+            // List<Foo> -> List
+            type = ( (ParameterizedType) type ).getRawType();
+        }
+
+        if( type instanceof Class )
+        {
+            Class typeAsClass = (Class) type;
+            if( Set.class.isAssignableFrom( typeAsClass ) )
+            {
+                return new HashSet();
+            }
+            else if( Map.class.isAssignableFrom( typeAsClass ) )
+            {
+                return new LinkedHashMap();
+            }
+            else if( Collection.class.isAssignableFrom( typeAsClass ) )
+            {
+                return new ArrayList();
+            }
+            else if( typeAsClass.isEnum() )
+            {
+                return ( (Class) type ).getEnumConstants()[ 0 ];
+            }
+        }
+        throw new IllegalArgumentException( "Cannot use @UseDefaults with type " + type.toString() );
+    }
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2007,2008 Niclas Hedhman.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.property;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject;
+import java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType;
+import java.lang.reflect.Type;
+
+import static org.qi4j.api.util.Classes.typeOf;
+
+/**
+ * Generic Property info utility class.
+ */
+public final class GenericPropertyInfo
+{
+    public static Type propertyTypeOf( AccessibleObject accessor )
+    {
+        return toPropertyType( typeOf( accessor ) );
+    }
+
+    public static Type toPropertyType( Type methodReturnType )
+    {
+        if( methodReturnType instanceof ParameterizedType )
+        {
+            ParameterizedType parameterizedType = (ParameterizedType) methodReturnType;
+            if( Property.class.isAssignableFrom( (Class<?>) parameterizedType.getRawType() ) )
+            {
+                return parameterizedType.getActualTypeArguments()[ 0 ];
+            }
+        }
+
+        if( methodReturnType instanceof Class<?> )
+        {
+            Type[] interfaces = ( (Class<?>) methodReturnType ).getGenericInterfaces();
+            for( Type anInterface : interfaces )
+            {
+                Type propertyType = toPropertyType( anInterface );
+                if( propertyType != null )
+                {
+                    return propertyType;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+}

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2008, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.qi4j.api.property;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+/**
+ * This annotation adds Immutability to Types, Properties and Associations
+ */
+@Retention( RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME )
+@Target( { ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.METHOD } )
+@Documented
+public @interface Immutable
+{
+}