1 /*
2 * Copyright (C) The Spice Group. All rights reserved.
3 *
4 * This software is published under the terms of the Spice
5 * Software License version 1.1, a copy of which has been included
6 * with this distribution in the LICENSE.txt file.
7 */
8 package org.codehaus.spice.converter;
9
10 /***
11 * This factory is used to create instances of factory objects.
12 * The Factory is used so we can lazily instantiate converters
13 * which may be useful if there is a large number of them created
14 * for some reason.
15 *
16 * @author <a href="mailto:adammurdoch at apache.org">Adam Murdoch</a>
17 * @version $Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2003/12/02 08:37:56 $
18 */
19 public interface ConverterFactory
20 {
21 /***
22 * Create an instance of converter.
23 *
24 * @return the Converter object
25 * @throws Exception if unable to create converter
26 */
27 Converter createConverter()
28 throws Exception;
29 }
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