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/* LanguageTool, a natural language style checker
* Copyright (C) 2006 Daniel Naber (http://www.danielnaber.de)
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
* version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301
* USA
*/
package org.languagetool.broker;
import org.languagetool.JLanguageTool;
/**
* Is responsible for loading the necessary classes for LanguageTool
* library. It is necessary to provide the ability to load classes from
* custom classloaders.
*
*
* Make sure that you never obtain any LanguageTool class by calling
* {@code Class.forName(String)} directly. If you would like to
* load class do always use {@link JLanguageTool#getClassBroker()}
* which provides proper method for loading classes.
*
* @since 5.0
*/
public interface ClassBroker {
/**
* Returns the {@code Class} object associated with the class or
* interface with the given string name.
*
* @param qualifiedName the fully qualified name of the desired class.
* @return the {@code Class} object for the class with the specified name.
* @exception ClassNotFoundException if the class cannot be located
*/
Class> forName(String qualifiedName) throws ClassNotFoundException;
}