01: /*
02: * Copyright 2002-2007 the original author or authors.
03: *
04: * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
05: * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
06: * You may obtain a copy of the License at
07: *
08: * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
09: *
10: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11: * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12: * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13: * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14: * limitations under the License.
15: */
16:
17: package org.springframework.aop.aspectj.annotation;
18:
19: import org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectInstanceFactory;
20:
21: /**
22: * Subinterface of {@link org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectInstanceFactory}
23: * that returns {@link AspectMetadata} associated with AspectJ-annotated classes.
24: *
25: * <p>Ideally, AspectInstanceFactory would include this method itself, but because
26: * AspectMetadata uses Java-5-only {@link org.aspectj.lang.reflect.AjType},
27: * we need to split out this subinterface.
28: *
29: * @author Rod Johnson
30: * @since 2.0
31: * @see AspectMetadata
32: * @see org.aspectj.lang.reflect.AjType
33: */
34: public interface MetadataAwareAspectInstanceFactory extends
35: AspectInstanceFactory {
36:
37: /**
38: * Return the AspectJ AspectMetadata for this factory's aspect.
39: * @return the aspect metadata
40: */
41: AspectMetadata getAspectMetadata();
42:
43: }
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