| package org.eclipse.update.core; | |
| /* | |
| * (c) Copyright IBM Corp. 2000, 2002. | |
| * All Rights Reserved. | |
| */ | |
| import java.net.URL; | |
| import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException; | |
| /** | |
| * Feature factory interface. | |
| * A feature factory is used to construct new instances of concrete | |
| * features. | |
| * <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.BaseFeatureFactory | |
| * @since 2.0 | |
| */ | |
| public interface IFeatureFactory { | |
| /** | |
| * Returns a feature defined by the supplied URL. The feature | |
| * is associated with the specified site. | |
| * <p> | |
| * The actual interpretation of the URL is feature-type specific. | |
| * In most cases the URL will point to some feature-specific | |
| * file that can be used (directly or indirectly) to construct | |
| * the feature object. | |
| * </p> | |
| * @param url URL interpreted by the feature | |
| * @param site site to be associated with the feature | |
| * @return concrete feature object | |
| * @exception CoreException | |
| * @since 2.0 | |
| */ | |
| public IFeature createFeature(URL url, ISite site) throws CoreException; | |
| } |