001// Copyright 2004, 2005 The Apache Software Foundation 002// 003// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 004// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 005// You may obtain a copy of the License at 006// 007// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 008// 009// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 010// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 011// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 012// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 013// limitations under the License. 014 015package org.apache.hivemind; 016 017/** 018 * Interface for an object that can create a service's core implementation. 019 * 020 * @author Howard Lewis Ship 021 */ 022public interface ServiceImplementationFactory 023{ 024 /** 025 * Creates a core implementation object for a particular service extension point. Typically, the 026 * factory creates an instance and modifies it to implement the necessary interface (in much the 027 * same way that an {@link ServiceInterceptorFactory} would). <b>Incompatible change from 1.0: A 028 * long list of individual parameters have been collapsed down into the factoryParameters. </b> 029 * 030 * @param factoryParameters 031 * provides the information about the service necessary to construct the service. 032 */ 033 public Object createCoreServiceImplementation( 034 ServiceImplementationFactoryParameters factoryParameters); 035}