/*
* Created on Nov 22, 2004
*/
package uk.org.ponder.beanutil;
/**
* A minimal interface to a bean container, that does not know how to
* interpret paths, i.e. container considered as raw HashTable. This is
* particularly useful when we want to impose some kind of access control
* censoring the root path taken to a derived bean.
* @author Antranig Basman (antranig@caret.cam.ac.uk)
*
*/
public interface BeanLocator {
/** Return the bean/object with the specified name.</p>
* The supplied argument is a simple name, that is, a single path segment
* of an EL path. */
public Object locateBean(String name);
}
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