1 /******************************************************************************* 2 * Copyright (c) 2006 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.jface.internal.databinding.provisional.factories; 13 14 import org.eclipse.jface.internal.databinding.provisional.BindSpec; 15 import org.eclipse.jface.internal.databinding.provisional.Binding; 16 import org.eclipse.jface.internal.databinding.provisional.DataBindingContext; 17 import org.eclipse.jface.internal.databinding.provisional.observable.IObservable; 18 19 /** 20 * @since 1.0 21 * 22 */ 23 public interface IBindingFactory { 24 25 /** 26 * Creates a new binding between the given observable objects, using 27 * additional information given in the bind spec. Returns null if this 28 * factory cannot create bindings between the given observables. 29 * @param dataBindingContext TODO 30 * @param target 31 * @param model 32 * @param bindSpec the bind spec, or null 33 * 34 * @return a new binding, or null 35 */ 36 public Binding createBinding(DataBindingContext dataBindingContext, IObservable target, 37 IObservable model, BindSpec bindSpec); 38 39 } 40