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14
15 package org.apache.hivemind.internal;
16
17 import org.apache.hivemind.definition.ConfigurationPointDefinition;
18
19
20 /**
21  * An extension point that provides configuration data in the form of a list of elements.
22  *
23  * @author Howard Lewis Ship
24  */
25 public interface ConfigurationPoint extends ExtensionPoint
26 {
27     /**
28      * Returns the container that holds the configuration data. May
29      * return a proxy to the actual data (which is constructed only as needed), but user code
30      * shouldn't care about that.
31      */
32     public Object JavaDoc getConfiguration();
33     
34     /**
35      * @return the type of the container that holds the configuration data
36      */
37     public Class JavaDoc getConfigurationType();
38
39     public ConfigurationPointDefinition getConfigurationPointDefinition();
40 }
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