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1 | /* | |
2 | * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more | |
3 | * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with | |
4 | * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. | |
5 | * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 | |
6 | * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with | |
7 | * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at | |
8 | * | |
9 | * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 | |
10 | * | |
11 | * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software | |
12 | * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, | |
13 | * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. | |
14 | * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and | |
15 | * limitations under the License. | |
16 | */ | |
17 | package org.apache.commons.configuration; | |
18 | ||
19 | /** | |
20 | * <p> | |
21 | * Definition of an interface for objects that can create a configuration. | |
22 | * </p> | |
23 | * <p> | |
24 | * This interface defines an abstract way of creating a | |
25 | * <code>Configuration</code> object. It does not assume any specific way of | |
26 | * how this is done; this is completely in the responsibility of an | |
27 | * implementation class. There is just a single method that returns the | |
28 | * configuration constructed by this builder. | |
29 | * </p> | |
30 | * | |
31 | * @author <a | |
32 | * href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/configuration/team-list.html">Commons | |
33 | * Configuration team</a> | |
34 | * @version $Id: ConfigurationBuilder.java 439648 2006-09-02 20:42:10Z oheger $ | |
35 | */ | |
36 | public interface ConfigurationBuilder | |
37 | { | |
38 | /** | |
39 | * Returns the configuration provided by this builder. An implementation has | |
40 | * to perform all necessary steps for creating and initializing a | |
41 | * <code>Configuration</code> object. | |
42 | * | |
43 | * @return the configuration | |
44 | * @throws ConfigurationException if an error occurs | |
45 | */ | |
46 | Configuration getConfiguration() throws ConfigurationException; | |
47 | } |