State Managers 

Definition

A state manager is a plugable component used by IOITF to handle events. Knowledge about an individual object’s life cycle and how it reacts to an event (raised by an application) resides in the state manager.

Use

IOITF provides a state manager, IOITF_SM, that can be readily used. Nevertheless, users are free to use any state manager that complies with IOITF’s state manager adapter (implements interface IF_COM_IOITF_SMA). Before a state manager can be used, it must be registered with IOITF. IOITF’s state manager, IOITF_SM is already registered.