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package org.forgerock.openam.radius.server.config;

/**
 * Interface describing how to start and stup the RADIUS server service.
 */
public interface RadiusServer {

    /**
     * Tells the service to shut down. Only returns after all launched threads and thread pools have been shutdown.
     */
    public abstract void shutdown();

    /**
     * Launches the Radius Server. May be called more than once if more than one trigger is registered such as a
     * SpringFramework servlet and the ServletContextListener. Only the first call will start the process. All others
     * are ignored.
     */
    public abstract void startUp();

}
