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+/**
+ *
+ * Copyright 2006 The Apache Software Foundation
+ *
+ *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ *  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ *  limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.core.loader;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.core.builder.ObjectFactory;
+import org.apache.tuscany.core.config.ConfigurationLoadException;
+import org.apache.tuscany.model.assembly.Property;
+
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException;
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader;
+
+/**
+ * A factory that will create an ObjectFactory for a property by parsing a StAX XMLStreamReader.
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public interface StAXPropertyFactory<T> {
+    /**
+     * Return an ObjectFactory for instances of a property defined in an XML stream.
+     *
+     * @param reader the reader to use to access the XML stream
+     * @param property the Property definition that the resulting ObjectFactory must be able to assign to
+     * @return an ObjectFactory that can produce instances that can be assigned to the supplied Property
+     * @throws XMLStreamException if there is a problem reading the stream
+     * @throws ConfigurationLoadException if there is a problem creating the ObjectFactory
+     */
+    ObjectFactory<T> createObjectFactory(XMLStreamReader reader, Property property) throws XMLStreamException, ConfigurationLoadException;
+}