/*******************************************************************************

  * Copyright (c) 2009 SWTBot Committers and others.

  * 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:

  *     Ketan Padegaonkar - initial API and implementation

  *******************************************************************************/

 package org.eclipse.swtbot.swt.finder;

 import org.eclipse.swtbot.swt.finder.utils.SWTUtils;

 /**

  * Starts the application under test.

  * 

  * @author Ketan Padegaonkar <KetanPadegaonkar [at] gmail [dot] com>

  * @version $Id$

  */

 public interface ApplicationRunner {

         /**

          * Starts the application. <b>Note:</b> This will <b>not</b> be called on the same thread as the junit test. So it's

          * safe to call your application's main class directly.

          */

         void startApplication();

         /**

          * Returns <code>true</code> if the application is running, <code>false</code> otherwise. A typical implementation

          * would be to wait until {@link SWTUtils#display()} returns something.

          * 

          * @return <code>true</code> if the application is running, <code>false</code> otherwise.

          */

         boolean isApplicationRunning();

 }