1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2012 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.core.api.resourceloader;
17
18 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.reflect.ObjectDefinition;
19
20 /**
21 * Loads and constructs instances of Objects from the given {@link ObjectDefinition}.
22 *
23 * @see ObjectDefinition
24 *
25 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
26 */
27 public interface ObjectLoader {
28
29 /**
30 * Constructs an instance of the Object using the given ObjectDefinition classname.
31 */
32 public <T extends Object> T getObject(ObjectDefinition definition);
33
34 }