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package org.apache.hivemind;

/**
 * Interface for an object that can create a service's core implementation.
 * 
 * @author Howard Lewis Ship
 */
public interface ServiceImplementationFactory
{
    /**
     * Creates a core implementation object for a particular service extension point. Typically, the
     * factory creates an instance and modifies it to implement the necessary interface (in much the
     * same way that an {@link ServiceInterceptorFactory} would). <b>Incompatible change from 1.0: A
     * long list of individual parameters have been collapsed down into the factoryParameters. </b>
     * 
     * @param factoryParameters
     *            provides the information about the service necessary to construct the service.
     */
    public Object createCoreServiceImplementation(
            ServiceImplementationFactoryParameters factoryParameters);
}