1 /** 2 * Copyright 2005-2015 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 }