/**
   * A provider has been removed.
   *
   * @param provider the ProtocolProviderService that has been unregistered.
   */
  void handleProviderRemoved(ProtocolProviderService provider) {
    // lets remove the recent messages for this provider, and update
    // with recent messages for the available providers
    synchronized (recentMessages) {
      if (provider != null) {
        List<ComparableEvtObj> removedItems = new ArrayList<ComparableEvtObj>();
        for (ComparableEvtObj msc : recentMessages) {
          if (msc.getProtocolProviderService().equals(provider)) removedItems.add(msc);
        }

        recentMessages.removeAll(removedItems);
        if (!recentMessages.isEmpty())
          oldestRecentMessage = recentMessages.get(recentMessages.size() - 1).getTimestamp();
        else oldestRecentMessage = null;

        if (recentQuery != null) {
          for (ComparableEvtObj msc : removedItems) {
            recentQuery.fireContactRemoved(msc);
          }
        }
      }

      // handleProviderRemoved can be invoked due to stopped
      // history service, if this is the case we do not want to
      // update messages
      if (!this.messageHistoryService.isHistoryLoggingEnabled()) return;

      // lets do the same as we enable provider
      // for all registered providers and finally fire events
      List<ComparableEvtObj> contactsToAdd = new ArrayList<ComparableEvtObj>();
      for (ProtocolProviderService pps : messageHistoryService.getCurrentlyAvailableProviders()) {
        contactsToAdd.addAll(getCachedRecentMessages(pps, true));
      }

      addNewRecentMessages(contactsToAdd);
    }
  }