1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2013 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.kew.engine;
17
18 /**
19 * A factory that constructs new Workflow Engines.
20 *
21 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
22 */
23 public interface WorkflowEngineFactory {
24
25 /**
26 * Constructs a new WorkflowEngine instance using the passed in orchestration
27 * configuration.
28 *
29 * @param config
30 * @return <E> a generic type that extends WorkflowEngine
31 */
32 public <E extends WorkflowEngine> E newEngine(OrchestrationConfig config);
33
34 }