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package com.jgoodies.validation;

/**
 * Describes objects that can validate other objects.
 * In contrast a {@link Validatable} can validate itself.
 *
 * @author  Karsten Lentzsch
 * @version $Revision: 1.14 $
 *
 * @see     ValidationResult
 *
 * @since 2.0
 *
 * @param   the type of the objects to be validated
 */
public interface Validator {

    /**
     * Validates the given validation target and returns the validation result
     * as an instance of {@link ValidationResult}.
     *
     * @param validationTarget   the object to be validated
     * @return the validation result
     */
    ValidationResult validate(T validationTarget);


}