1 /******************************************************************************* 2 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2005 IBM Corporation and others. 3 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials 4 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 5 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at 6 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html 7 * 8 * Contributors: 9 * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation 10 *******************************************************************************/ 11 12 package org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.spelling.engine; 13 14 /** 15 * Interface of algorithms to compute the phonetic distance between two words. 16 * 17 * @since 3.0 18 */ 19 public interface IPhoneticDistanceAlgorithm { 20 21 /** 22 * Returns the non-negative phonetic distance between two words 23 * 24 * @param from 25 * The first word 26 * @param to 27 * The second word 28 * @return The non-negative phonetic distance between the words. 29 */ 30 public int getDistance(String from, String to); 31 } 32