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package org.jboss.arquillian.drone.spi;
/**
* Defines a contract for instantiating a DroneDriver
*
* @param
* Type of drone instances
* @param
* Type of drone configurations
*/
public interface Instantiator> extends Sortable {
/**
* Creates an instance of Drone Driver.
*
* The instance is created before execution of the first method of the test class automatically by calling this
* method. The
* object is then bound to the Arquillian context, where it stays until the execution of the last test method is
* finished.
*
* @param configuration
* the configuration object for the extension
*
* @return Newly created instance of the driver
*/
T createInstance(C configuration);
}