1 // Copyright 2004, 2005 The Apache Software Foundation 2 // 3 // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 4 // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 5 // You may obtain a copy of the License at 6 // 7 // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 8 // 9 // 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.hivemind.parse; 16 17 import org.apache.hivemind.Locatable; 18 import org.apache.hivemind.definition.ImplementationConstructor; 19 20 /** 21 * Interface for an object that can construct the core implementation for a service. 22 * 23 * @author Howard Lewis Ship 24 */ 25 public interface InstanceBuilder extends Locatable 26 { 27 /** 28 * Returns the name of a service model appropriate for the instance that will be 29 * created by the {@link ImplementationConstructor}. 30 */ 31 public String getServiceModel(); 32 33 /** 34 * Returns an instance of {@link ImplementationConstructor} 35 * that will ultimately create the service implementation instance. 36 */ 37 public ImplementationConstructor createConstructor( 38 String contributingModuleId); 39 } 40