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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);
}