1 /*
2 * Copyright 2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16 package org.apache.commons.clazz;
17
18 /**
19 * A clazz loader factory creates and configures clazz loaders.
20 *
21 * @author <a href="mailto:dmitri@apache.org">Dmitri Plotnikov</a>
22 * @version $Id: ClazzLoaderFactory.java 155436 2005-02-26 13:17:48Z dirkv $
23 */
24 public interface ClazzLoaderFactory {
25
26 /**
27 * Returns the name of the clazz model implemented by this factory.
28 * By convention, it should be a proper identifier, no dots, capitalized.
29 */
30 String getClazzModel();
31
32 /**
33 * Allocate, configure and cache a clazz loader that uses the supplied class
34 * loader for reflection.
35 */
36 ClazzLoader getClazzLoader(ClassLoader contextClassLoader);
37
38 /**
39 * The supplied class should be an implementation of the ClazzLoader
40 * interface. When ClazzLoaderFactory creates a new clazz loader, it will
41 * instantiate all registered implementations and group them together.
42 */
43 void addClazzLoaderClass(Class clazzLoaderClass);
44 }