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1   /*
2    * $Id: ModelServiceDescriptor.java 23011 2011-09-22 16:22:04Z dirk.olmes $
3    * --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4    * Copyright (c) MuleSoft, Inc.  All rights reserved.  http://www.mulesoft.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.
22   */
23  public interface ModelServiceDescriptor extends ServiceDescriptor
24  {
25      Model createModel() throws ServiceException;
26  
27      Class<Model> getModelClass() throws ServiceException;
28  }