01: /*
02: * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
03: * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
04: * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
05: * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
06: * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
07: * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
08: *
09: * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
10: *
11: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
12: * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
13: * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
14: * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
15: * limitations under the License.
16: */
17:
18: package org.apache.commons.dbcp;
19:
20: import java.sql.Connection;
21: import java.sql.SQLException;
22:
23: /**
24: * Abstract factory interface for creating {@link java.sql.Connection}s.
25: *
26: * @author Rodney Waldhoff
27: * @version $Revision: 491655 $ $Date: 2007-01-01 15:05:30 -0700 (Mon, 01 Jan 2007) $
28: */
29: public interface ConnectionFactory {
30: /**
31: * Create a new {@link java.sql.Connection} in an
32: * implementation specific fashion.
33: *
34: * @return a new {@link java.sql.Connection}
35: * @throws SQLException if a database error occurs creating the connection
36: */
37: public abstract Connection createConnection() throws SQLException;
38: }
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