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: package org.apache.cocoon.woody.binding;
18:
19: import org.apache.excalibur.source.Source;
20:
21: /**
22: * BindingManager declares the factory method that produces actual Bindings.
23: * @version CVS $Id: BindingManager.java 433543 2006-08-22 06:22:54Z crossley $
24: */
25: public interface BindingManager {
26:
27: /**
28: * Avalon Role for this service interface.
29: */
30: String ROLE = BindingManager.class.getName();
31:
32: /**
33: * Constant matching the namespace used for the Binding config files.
34: */
35: String NAMESPACE = "http://apache.org/cocoon/woody/binding/1.0";
36:
37: /**
38: * Creates a binding from the XML config found at source parameter.
39: */
40: Binding createBinding(Source bindingFile) throws BindingException;
41:
42: }
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