01: /*
02: * Copyright 2005-2006 The Kuali Foundation.
03: *
04: *
05: * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 1.0 (the "License");
06: * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
07: * You may obtain a copy of the License at
08: *
09: * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl1.php
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.kuali.rice.resourceloader;
18:
19: import org.kuali.rice.definition.ObjectDefinition;
20:
21: /**
22: * Loads and constructs instances of Objects from the given {@link ObjectDefinition}.
23: *
24: * @see ObjectDefinition
25: *
26: * @author Kuali Rice Team (kuali-rice@googlegroups.com)
27: */
28: public interface ObjectLoader {
29:
30: /**
31: * Constructs an instance of the Object using the given ObjectDefinition classname.
32: */
33: public Object getObject(ObjectDefinition definition);
34:
35: }
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