001/*
002  GRANITE DATA SERVICES
003  Copyright (C) 2011 GRANITE DATA SERVICES S.A.S.
004
005  This file is part of Granite Data Services.
006
007  Granite Data Services is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
008  it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by
009  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
010  option) any later version.
011
012  Granite Data Services is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
013  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
014  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License
015  for more details.
016
017  You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
018  along with this library; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
019*/
020
021package org.granite.config;
022
023import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
024import java.util.Set;
025
026import org.granite.messaging.service.ServiceFactory;
027
028public interface ConfigProvider {
029        
030        public <T> T findInstance(Class<T> type);
031
032        public <T> Set<T> findInstances(Class<T> type);
033        
034        public Boolean useTide();
035        
036        public String getType();
037        
038        public Class<?>[] getTideInterfaces();
039        
040        public Class<? extends Annotation>[] getTideAnnotations();
041        
042        public Class<? extends ServiceFactory> getFactoryClass();
043}