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  * Copyright 2005-2007 The Kuali Foundation

  *

  *

  * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

  * You may obtain a copy of the License at

  *

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  *

  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

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 package org.kuali.rice.core.api.resourceloader;

 import java.util.List;

 import javax.xml.namespace.QName;

 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.lifecycle.Lifecycle;

 /**

  * A general purpose resource loader which fetches objects and services from the

  * approriate source.

  *

  * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

  */

 public interface ResourceLoader extends ObjectLoader, ServiceLocator, Lifecycle {

         public static final String KSB_CONFIGURER_CONTAINER_NAME = "ksbConfigurerContainer";

         public static final String ROOT_RESOURCE_LOADER_NAME = "ROOT_RESOURCE_LOADER_NAME";

         public static final String PLUGIN_REGISTRY_LOADER_NAME = "pluginRegistryResourceLoader";

         public static final String EMBEDDED_PLUGIN = "embeddedPlugin";

         public static final String WEB_SERVICE_PLUGIN = "webServicePlugin";

         public static final String RMI_PLUGIN = "RMIPlugin";

         public static final String EMBEDDED_CLIENT_APP_RESOURCE_LOADER = "embeddedClientApplicationResourceLoader";

         public void addResourceLoader(ResourceLoader resourceLoader);

         public void addResourceLoaderFirst(ResourceLoader resourceLoader);

         public ResourceLoader getResourceLoader(QName name);

         public List<QName> getResourceLoaderNames();

         public List<ResourceLoader> getResourceLoaders();

         public void removeResourceLoader(QName name);

         public void setName(QName name);

         public QName getName();

         public String getContents(String indent, boolean servicePerLine);

 }