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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 JCraft,Inc. 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:
+ *     JCraft,Inc. - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.jsch.core;
+
+import com.jcraft.jsch.IdentityRepository;
+
+/**
+ * This class abstracts the communications with the identity repository,
+ * and will be mainly used for ssh-agent.
+ * @since 1.2
+ */
+public abstract class AbstractIdentityRepositoryFactory{
+  /**
+   * This method will return an instance of
+   * <code>com.jcraft.com.jsch.IdentityRepository</code>. The ssh client will
+   * retrieve public keys from it, ask for signing data with a private key
+   * included in it.
+   * 
+   * @return an instance of <code>IdentityRepository</code>
+   */
+  public abstract IdentityRepository create();
+}