01: // Copyright 2007 The Apache Software Foundation
02: //
03: // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
04: // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
05: // You may obtain a copy of the License at
06: //
07: // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
08: //
09: // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
10: // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
11: // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
12: // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
13: // limitations under the License.
14:
15: package org.apache.tapestry.ioc.internal;
16:
17: import org.apache.tapestry.ioc.ObjectCreator;
18: import org.apache.tapestry.ioc.ServiceBuilderResources;
19:
20: /**
21: * An object which can, when passed a {@link ServiceBuilderResources}, create a corresponding
22: * {@link ObjectCreator}. A secondary responsibility is to provide a description of the creator,
23: * which is usually based on the name of the method or constructor to be invoked, and is ultimately
24: * used in some debugging or error output.
25: */
26: public interface ObjectCreatorSource {
27: /**
28: * Provides an ObjectCreator that can be used to ultimately instantiate the core service
29: * implementation.
30: */
31: ObjectCreator constructCreator(ServiceBuilderResources resources);
32:
33: /**
34: * Returns a description of the method or constructor that creates the service.
35: */
36: String getDescription();
37: }
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