v2/src/binding/org/apache/xmlbeans/impl/binding/tylar/TylarLoader.java

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package org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.binding.tylar;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URI;

import org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlException;

/**
 * Abstraction which can load a tylar from some location specified in a
 * URI.
 *
 * @author Patrick Calaham <pcal@bea.com>
 */
public interface TylarLoader {

  /**
   * Loads a single tylar out of the given ClassLoader.
   *
   * @param cl ClassLoader from which to load the tylar
   * @return
   * @throws IOException if an i/o error occurs while processing
   * @throws XmlException if an error occurs parsing the contents of the tylar.
   */
  public Tylar load(ClassLoader cl) throws IOException, XmlException;

  /**
   * @deprecated
   */
  public Tylar load(URI uri) throws IOException, XmlException;

}