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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.apache.qpid.server.management;
+
+import javax.management.MalformedObjectNameException;
+import javax.management.ObjectName;
+import javax.management.JMException;
+
+import org.apache.qpid.AMQException;
+
+/**
+ * This should be implemented by all Managable objects.
+ */
+public interface ManagedObject
+{
+    static final String DOMAIN = "org.apache.qpid";
+
+    /**
+     * @return the name that uniquely identifies this object instance. It must be
+     * unique only among objects of this type at this level in the hierarchy so
+     * the uniqueness should not be too difficult to ensure.
+     */
+    String getObjectInstanceName();
+
+    String getType();
+
+    Class<?> getManagementInterface();
+
+    ManagedObject getParentObject();
+
+    void register() throws AMQException, JMException;
+
+    void unregister() throws AMQException;
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the ObjectName required for the mbeanserver registration.
+     * @return ObjectName
+     * @throws MalformedObjectNameException
+     */
+    ObjectName getObjectName() throws MalformedObjectNameException;
+}