/**
 * Copyright (c) 2011, 2015 - Lunifera GmbH (Gross Enzersdorf, Austria), Loetz GmbH&Co.KG (69115 Heidelberg, Germany)
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *         Florian Pirchner - Initial implementation
 */
package org.eclipse.osbp.runtime.common.types;

import org.osgi.framework.Bundle;

// TODO: Auto-generated Javadoc
/**
 * A bundle space is a collection of bundles that expose their classes. Bundles
 * with the bundle header <code>"OSBP-RuntimeBuilder-BundleSpace"</code> will be
 * automatically added using the extender pattern.
 */
public interface IBundleSpace {

	/**
	 * Tries to find a class for the given class name using the bundles
	 * registered in the bundle space.
	 *
	 * @param name
	 *            the name
	 * @return the class
	 * @throws ClassNotFoundException
	 *             the class not found exception
	 */
	Class<?> forName(String name) throws ClassNotFoundException;
	/**
	 * Adds a new bundle to the bundle space. The bundle will be used to find
	 * classes.
	 * 
	 * @param bundle
	 */
	void add(Bundle bundle);
	/**
	 * Removes the bundle from the bundle space.
	 * 
	 * @param bundle
	 */
	void remove(Bundle bundle);
}