001    /*
002     * Copyright 2005-2007 The Kuali Foundation
003     * 
004     * 
005     * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
006     * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
007     * You may obtain a copy of the License at
008     * 
009     * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
010     * 
011     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
012     * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
013     * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
014     * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
015     * limitations under the License.
016     */
017    package org.kuali.rice.kew.batch;
018    
019    import java.io.File;
020    import java.io.IOException;
021    import java.util.List;
022    
023    /**
024     * Interface describing an abstract XML document source collection
025     * @see org.kuali.rice.kew.batch.XmlDoc
026     * @see org.kuali.rice.kew.batch.BaseXmlDocCollection
027     * @see org.kuali.rice.kew.batch.FileXmlDocCollection
028     * @see org.kuali.rice.kew.batch.DirectoryXmlDocCollection
029     * @see org.kuali.rice.kew.batch.ZipXmlDocCollection
030     * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
031     */
032    public interface XmlDocCollection {
033        File getFile();
034        List<? extends XmlDoc> getXmlDocs();
035        void close() throws IOException;
036    }