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.internal; 016 017import java.util.List; 018 019/** 020 * An Contribution is a contribution to an {@link org.apache.hivemind.internal.ConfigurationPoint}. 021 * 022 * @author Howard Lewis Ship 023 */ 024public interface Contribution 025{ 026 /** 027 * Returns the module which made this contribution. 028 */ 029 public Module getContributingModule(); 030 031 /** 032 * Returns a List of {@link org.apache.hivemind.Element}, the representation of the XML 033 * elements in the extension. The ConfigurationPoint will use its 034 * {@link org.apache.hivemind.schema.Schema} (if present) to convert this XML representation 035 * into the object representation returned by {@link ConfigurationPoint#getElements()}. 036 */ 037 public List getElements(); 038}