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* Copyright (c) 2000, 2003 IBM Corporation and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jdt.launching;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor;
import org.eclipse.debug.core.ILaunch;
/**
* A VM runner starts a Java VM running a Java program.
* <p>
* Clients may implement this interface to launch a new kind of VM.
* </p>
*/
public interface IVMRunner {
/**
* Launches a Java VM as specified in the given configuration,
* contributing results (debug targets and processes), to the
* given launch.
*
* @param configuration the configuration settings for this run
* @param launch the launch to contribute to
* @param monitor progress monitor or <code>null</code>
* @exception CoreException if an exception occurs while launching
*/
public void run(VMRunnerConfiguration configuration, ILaunch launch, IProgressMonitor monitor) throws CoreException;
}