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-/*******************************************************************************
- * Copyright (c) 2006 Oracle Corporation.
- * 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:
- * Cameron Bateman/Oracle - initial API and implementation
- *
- ********************************************************************************/
-
-package org.eclipse.jst.jsf.context;
-
-import java.util.List;
-
-import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IAdaptable;
-
-/**
- * Defines a type of factory that can have delegate factories to help it
- * create an appropriate instance type. The general contract for implementors
- * is:
- *
- * 1) You must follow the isValidDelegate contract.
- * 2) You should try to create an instance yourself and only delegate
- * if cannot do it yourself. Deviations from this rule must be
- * clearly documented to ensure clients understand how the factory works.
- *
- * Clients may NOT implement this interface.
- * Extend AbstractDelegatingFactory instead.
- *
- * @author cbateman
- *
- */
-public interface IDelegatingFactory
-{
- /** -- Delegates */
- /** If this factory is asked to construct but does not know how to,
- * it will ask each of its registered delegates to do so in the order
- * they were added.
- */
-
- /**
- * Adds delgate to the end of the list of factory delegates if the list
- * does not already contain it.
- *
- * @param delegate
- * @throws ClassCastException if delegate does not implement an expected
- * interface. Each implementor can define what delegates are valid
- * based on the isValidDelegate() and getValidDelegates contracts
- */
- void addFactoryDelegate(IAdaptable delegate);
-
-
- /**
- * @param delegate
- * @return true if delegate was removed, false if delegate wasn't in
- * the list of delegates
- */
- boolean removeFactoryDelegate(IAdaptable delegate);
-
- /**
- * @return a list of Class objects that represent the interfaces
- * that may be passed to addFactoryDelegate. Implementor should
- * return at least one supported class.
- */
- List<Class> getValidDelegateTypes();
-
-
- /**
- * The return value of this method should conform to the following contract:
- *
- * Let v = getValidDelegates. Then isValidDelegate should return true
- * only if the set of v contains a Class for which delegate.getAdapter(Class)
- * returns a non-null value.
- *
- * @param delegate
- * @return true if delegate is supported, false otherwise.
- */
- boolean isValidDelegate(IAdaptable delegate);
-}

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