How to hook into start-up and shutdown phase
Warning This is a very draft version. In the following it is explained how you can initialisation you module during the start-up phase of the application or if you need to clean up some allocated resources when you module is shutdown. In your maven pom file you will need the following NetBeans dependencies All OnStart Runnables declared by various modules are invoked in parallel and as soon as possible. Do stuff here which has to be done very early and only once for your module. All OnShowing Runnables are invoked when the windowing system is started and ready. Here you can initialise your UI components.import org.openide.modules.OnStart;
import org.openide.modules.OnStop;
import org.openide.windows.OnShowing;
import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
public class Module {
private Module() {
}
@OnStart
public static class StartOp implements Runnable {
@Override
public void run() {
}
}
@OnShowing
public static class ShowingOp implements Runnable {
@Override
public void run() {
}
}
@OnStop
public static class MaybeStopOp implements Callable {
@Override
public Boolean call() {
return Boolean.TRUE;
}
@OnStop
public static class StopOp implements Runnable {
@Override
public void run() {
}
}
<dependency>
// needed for the @OnStart and @OnStop annotations
<groupId>org.netbeans.api</groupId>
<artifactId>org-openide-modules</artifactId>
<version>RELEASE802</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
// needed for the @OnShowing annotation
<groupId>org.netbeans.api</groupId>
<artifactId>org-openide-windows</artifactId>
<version>RELEASE802</version>
</dependency>
The OnStop Callables annotated with OnStop are first consulted if shutdown is requested by the user. Callables can prevent the shutdown by returning False. This might be the case if download is still in progress.
If all Callables allow the shutdown the Runnables annotated with OnStop are invoked. Here you can clean up allocated resources and shutdown services.