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 }