| /******************************************************************************* |
| * Copyright (c) 2001, 2004 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 |
| * Jens Lukowski/Innoopract - initial renaming/restructuring |
| * |
| *******************************************************************************/ |
| package org.eclipse.wst.sse.core; |
| |
| |
| |
| public interface AdapterFactory { |
| |
| /** |
| * Method that returns the adapter associated with the given object. It |
| * may be a singleton or not ... depending on the needs of the |
| * INodeAdapter ... but in general it is recommended for an adapter to be |
| * stateless, so the efficiencies of a singleton can be gained. |
| * |
| * The implementation of this method should call addAdapter on the adapted |
| * object with the correct instance of the adapter. |
| */ |
| INodeAdapter adapt(INodeNotifier object); |
| |
| /** |
| * returns an instance of the adapter factory. Unlike clone, this method |
| * may return the same instance, such as in the case where the |
| * AdapterFactory is intended to be a singleton. |
| */ |
| public AdapterFactory copy(); |
| |
| boolean isFactoryForType(Object type); |
| |
| /** |
| * |
| */ |
| public void release(); |
| |
| } |