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/******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2006 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.gmf.runtime.emf.core.resources;
import org.eclipse.emf.common.notify.Adapter;
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EClass;
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject;
/**
* Interface of an adapter for {@link Resource}s that provides
* services such as creation of objects in that resource.
* This interface is used by the {@link EMFCoreUtil} class to implement
* extensible/overrideable object creation behaviours.
*
* @author Christian W. Damus (cdamus)
*/
public interface IResourceHelper extends Adapter {
/**
* Creates an instance of the specified <code>EClass</code> for the
* intention of attention of attaching it to the resource providing this
* helper.
*
* @param eClass the <code>EClass</code> to instantiate
*
* @return the instance
*/
EObject create(EClass eClass);
}