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/*
* Copyright (c) 2009, Rickard Öberg. All Rights Reserved.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*
*/
package org.apache.zest.bootstrap;
/**
* Implement this interface to create the root class that
* is responsible for assembling your entire application.
*
* Model introspectors will instantiate this class and call assemble
* to create the application, which will then be visited to get
* information about its structure.
*
* Application deployment servers will instantiate this, call assemble,
* and then activate the created application, which will be the runtime
* instance that forms your application.
*/
public interface ApplicationAssembler
{
ApplicationAssembly assemble( ApplicationAssemblyFactory applicationFactory )
throws AssemblyException;
}