trunk/bval-core/src/main/java/org/apache/bval/MetaBeanFactory.java

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package org.apache.bval;

import org.apache.bval.model.MetaBean;

/**
 * Description: interface for abstraction how to initialize a MetaBean
 * with information from somewhere<br/>
 */
public interface MetaBeanFactory {
    /**
     * Initialize the specified {@link MetaBean}.
     * @param metaBean
     * @throws Exception
     */
    void buildMetaBean(MetaBean metaBean) throws Exception;
}