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/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2006, 2014 IBM Corporation and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.core.runtime.spi;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IExtensionRegistry;
/**
* Implement this interface to specify a contributed extension registry.
* <p>
* This interface can be used without OSGi running.
* </p><p>
* This interface may be implemented by clients.
* </p>
* @see org.eclipse.core.runtime.RegistryFactory#getRegistry()
* @see org.eclipse.core.runtime.RegistryFactory#setDefaultRegistryProvider(IRegistryProvider)
* @since org.eclipse.equinox.registry 3.2
*/
public interface IRegistryProvider {
/**
* Returns the extension registry contributed by this provider; must not
* be <code>null</code>.
*
* @return an extension registry
*/
public IExtensionRegistry getRegistry();
}