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1 /*
2
3    Derby - Class org.apache.derby.iapi.services.loader.GeneratedClass
4
5    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
6    contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
7    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
8    The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
9    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
10    the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
11
12       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
13
14    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
15    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
16    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
17    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
18    limitations under the License.
19
20  */
21
22 package org.apache.derby.iapi.services.loader;
23
24 import org.apache.derby.iapi.error.StandardException;
25 import org.apache.derby.iapi.services.context.Context;
26
27 /**
28     A meta-class that represents a generated class.
29     (Similar to java.lang.Class).
30 */
31
32 public interface GeneratedClass {
33
34     /**
35         Return the name of the generated class.
36     */
37     public String JavaDoc getName();
38
39     /**
40         Return a new object that is an instance of the represented
41         class. The object will have been initialised by the no-arg
42         constructor of the represneted class.
43         (Similar to java.lang.Class.newInstance).
44
45         @exception StandardException Standard Cloudscape error policy
46
47     */
48     public Object JavaDoc newInstance(Context context)
49         throws StandardException;
50
51     /**
52         Obtain a handle to the method with the given name
53         that takes no arguments.
54
55         @exception StandardException Standard Cloudscape error policy
56     */
57     public GeneratedMethod getMethod(String JavaDoc simpleName)
58         throws StandardException;
59
60     /**
61         Return the class reload version that this class was built at.
62     */
63     public int getClassLoaderVersion();
64 }
65
66
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