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 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
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 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *     Jens Lukowski/Innoopract - initial renaming/restructuring
 *     
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui.internal.provisional.registry;

import java.util.Iterator;

/**
 * This is basically a "factory for factories". It is to used to associate
 * "edit time" AdapterFactories with a StructuredModel, based on the
 * IStructuredModel's ContentTypeDescription. In plugin.xml files, there
 * should be an AdapterFactoryProvider defined for every definition of
 * ContentTypeDescription.
 */
public interface AdapterFactoryRegistry {

	/**
	 * Returns an Iterator over a Collection of AdapterFactoryProviders
	 * 
	 * @return
	 */
	public Iterator getAdapterFactories();
}