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/*   Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation
 *
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package org.apache.xmlbeans;

/**
 * generic interface to abstract creation of an object
 */
public interface ObjectFactory
{
    /**
     * Given the type, create an object of that type.  Note that the return object
     * might be a subclass of type, but should always be an instanceof type.
     *
     * @param type   type of object to create
     * @return  instance
     */
    Object createObject(Class type);
}