an additional interface that custom message handlers may choose to implement. Implementors get callbacks when a build is starting and when a build has finished (allowing them to perform before and after build processing, like closing output files etc..).

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+/* *******************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2006 Contributors.
+ * 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://eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html 
+ *  
+ * Contributors: 
+ *   Adrian Colyer			Initial implementation
+ * ******************************************************************/
+package org.aspectj.bridge;
+
+/**
+ * Interface that can be implemented by MessageHandlers that need to 
+ * perform some additional processing when a build is starting and 
+ * when it has finished.
+ * 
+ * @author Adrian Colyer
+ * @since 1.5.1
+ */
+public interface ILifecycleAware {
+
+	/**
+	 * called when a build starts
+	 */
+	void buildStarting(boolean isIncremental);
+	
+	/**
+	 * called when a batch build finishes
+	 *
+	 */
+	void buildFinished(boolean wasIncremental);
+	
+}