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 * Copyright (c) 2001, 2007 Oracle 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
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 * Contributors:
 *     Oracle Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jst.jsf.common.metadata.internal;

/**
 * Provides class loading by using the plugin's classloader that defined an item of metadata
 */
public interface IClassLoaderProvider {
	/**
	 * @param className
	 * @return Class - implementers should eat exceptions and return null whenever class cannot be returned
	 */
	public Class loadClass(String className);
}