1 /*
2 * Copyright 2005-2007 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 *
5 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
6 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
7 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
8 *
9 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
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.kuali.rice.core.resourceloader;
18
19 import org.kuali.rice.core.reflect.ObjectDefinition;
20
21 /**
22 * Loads and constructs instances of Objects from the given {@link ObjectDefinition}.
23 *
24 * @see ObjectDefinition
25 *
26 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
27 */
28 public interface ObjectLoader {
29
30 /**
31 * Constructs an instance of the Object using the given ObjectDefinition classname.
32 */
33 public Object getObject(ObjectDefinition definition);
34
35 }