| /******************************************************************************* |
| * Copyright (c) 2007 BEA Systems, Inc. |
| * 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: |
| * wharley@bea.com - initial API and implementation |
| * |
| *******************************************************************************/ |
| |
| package org.eclipse.jdt.apt.core.internal; |
| |
| import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException; |
| |
| /** |
| * An abstract factory for services such as annotation processors. |
| * This abstraction exists because the way a service is instantiated |
| * may depend on where it was loaded from as well as what kind of |
| * service it is (e.g., Java 6 annotation processors use their class |
| * object as a factory; Java 5 processors have an explicit factory |
| * object.) |
| * @since 3.3 |
| * @see AnnotationProcessorFactoryLoader |
| */ |
| public interface IServiceFactory { |
| |
| Object newInstance() throws CoreException; |
| } |
