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1   /*
2    * $Id: ModelServiceDescriptor.java 12269 2008-07-10 04:19:03Z dfeist $
3    * --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4    * Copyright (c) MuleSource, Inc.  All rights reserved.  http://www.mulesource.com
5    *
6    * The software in this package is published under the terms of the CPAL v1.0
7    * license, a copy of which has been included with this distribution in the
8    * LICENSE.txt file.
9    */
10  
11  package org.mule.api.model;
12  
13  import org.mule.api.registry.ServiceDescriptor;
14  import org.mule.api.registry.ServiceException;
15  
16  /**
17   * <code>ModelServiceDescriptor</code> describes the necessery information for
18   * creating a model from a service descriptor. A service descriptor should be
19   * located at META-INF/services/org/mule/models/<type> where type is the
20   * type of the model to be created.  The service descriptor is in the form of
21   * string key value pairs and supports a number of properties, descriptions of which
22   * can be found here: http://www.muledocs.org/Model+Service+Descriptors.
23   */
24  public interface ModelServiceDescriptor extends ServiceDescriptor
25  {
26      Model createModel() throws ServiceException;
27  
28      Class getModelClass() throws ServiceException;
29  }
30  
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