Package org.apache.uima

Interface CompositeResourceFactory

All Superinterfaces:

ResourceFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

CompositeResourceFactory_impl

public interface CompositeResourceFactory
extends ResourceFactory

A type of ResourceFactory that produces resources by delegating to other Resource Factories.

Resource Factories are registered with the composite factory by calling the registerFactory(Class,ResourceFactory) method. The type of ResourceSpecifier that the factory can handle is passed to this method. In the event that more than one ResourceFactory is registered for the same Resource Specifier class, the most recently registered factory will be tried first.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	registerFactory(java.lang.Class<? extends ResourceSpecifier> aResourceSpecifierInterface, ResourceFactory aFactory)	Registers a ResourceFactory with this composite factory.

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.uima.ResourceFactory

produceResource

Method Detail

registerFactory

void registerFactory(java.lang.Class<? extends ResourceSpecifier> aResourceSpecifierInterface,
                     ResourceFactory aFactory)

Registers a ResourceFactory with this composite factory.

Parameters:

aResourceSpecifierInterface - the subinterface of ResourceSpecifier that the factory can handle

aFactory - the factory used to create resources from resource specifiers of the given type