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* Copyright (c) 2000, 2003 IBM Corporation and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.update.core;
import java.net.*;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.*;
/**
* Site archive interface.
* Site archive is a representation of a packaged archive (file) located
* on an update site. It allows a "symbolic" path used to identify
* a plug-in or non-plug-in feature entry to be explicitly mapped
* to a specific URL.
* <p>
* Clients may implement this interface. However, in most cases clients should
* directly instantiate or subclass the provided implementation of this
* interface.
* </p>
* @see org.eclipse.update.core.ArchiveReference
* @since 2.0
*/
public interface IArchiveReference extends IAdaptable {
/**
*
* @return the archive "symbolic" path, or <code>null</code>
* @since 2.0
*/
public String getPath();
/**
* Retrieve the site archive URL
*
* @return the archive URL, or <code>null</code>
* @since 2.0
*/
public URL getURL();
}