h1. Introduction

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Several concurrent life-cycles exist in Petals ESB:
* [the Petals ESB life-cycle|#petals-esb-lifecycle],
* [the shared-library life-cycle|#sharedlibrary-lifecycle],
* [the component life-cycle|#component-lifecycle],
* [the service-assembly life-cycle|#service-assembly-lifecycle],
* [the service-unit life-cyle|#service-unit-lifecycle].

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h1. The Petals ESB life-cyle

The Petals ESB life-cycle is very simple.
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It contains only one state: STARTED. The implicit state 'STOPPED' does not really exist because in such state no Petals ESB process is running.

The transition from state 'STOPPED' to 'STARTED' is realized using the Petals ESB startup script '{{petals-esb}}'. The return to the state 'STOPPED' is realized using {{^C}} or the command '{{petals-esb stop}}'. See [Starting and stopping Petals ESB].

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h1. The shared-library life-cyle

h2. The life-cycle

The shared-library life-cycle is simple.
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It contains only one state: INSTALLED. The implicit state 'UNINSTALLED' does not really exist because the shared-library is not instantiated or loaded.
The transition from state 'UNINSTALLED' to 'INSTALLED' is realized installing the shared library, and the return to the state 'UNINSTALLED' is realized uninstalling the shared-library. A shared library can be (un)installed using [Petals CLI|petalsesb:Command Line Interface], [the Petals Autoloader|Petals ESB "Autoloader"], Petals Ant Tasks or the JMX API.

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h2. Constraints

The shared library life-cycle is linked to the component life-cycle:
* a shared library required by a component must be installed before to load the component
* a shared library can not be uninstalled until a component requiring it is installed.

|| Component state || installSharedLibrary || uninstallSharedLibrary ||
| UNLOADED | !checkOk.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkOk.png|align=center,width=20px! |
| LOADED/UNINSTALLED | !checkErro.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkErro.png|align=center,width=20px! |
| INSTALLED/SHUTDOWN | !checkErro.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkErro.png|align=center,width=20px! |
| STOPPED | !checkErro.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkErro.png|align=center,width=20px! |

h2. The life-cycle

The component life-cycle is the more complex life-cycle of Petals ESB life-cycles. It is composed of two correlated sub life-cycles:
* the component installer life-cycle that drives the installation of the component,
* the component life-cycle itself.

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h2. Constraints

| UNDEPLOYED | !checkOk.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkOk.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkOk.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkOk.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkOk.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkOk.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkOk.png|align=center,width=20px! |
| SHUTDOWN | !checkErro.png|align=center,width=20px!| !checkErro.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkOk.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkOk.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkErro.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkErro.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkErro.png|align=center,width=20px! |
| STOPPED | !checkErro.png|align=center,width=20px!| !checkErro.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkOk.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkOk.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkErro.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkErro.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkErro.png|align=center,width=20px! |
| STARTED | !checkErro.png|align=center,width=20px!| !checkErro.png|align=center,width=20px!| !checkOk.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkOk.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkErro.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkErro.png|align=center,width=20px! | !checkErro.png|align=center,width=20px! |
** component required by a service unit must be installed and running (ie. in state STOPPED or STARTED) before to deploy the service unit,
** if service units are deployed on, a component can only be started or stopped. All service units must be undeployed before to try any other transitions.

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The service unit life-cycle is simple:
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The implicit state 'UNDEPLOYED' does not really exist because the service unit is not deployed.