* shared state without additional synchronization necessary for visibility to later executions of
 * the life cycle methods.
 *
 * <h3>Usage Example</h3>
 *
 * <p>Here is a sketch of a service which crawls a website and uses the scheduling capabilities to
 * rate limit itself.
 *
 * <pre>{@code
 * class CrawlingService extends AbstractScheduledService {
 *   private Set<Uri> visited;
 *   private Queue<Uri> toCrawl;