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package org.springframework.aop;
import org.aopalliance.aop.Advice;
/**
* Subinterface of AOP Alliance Advice that allows additional interfaces
* to be implemented by an Advice, and available via a proxy using that
* interceptor. This is a fundamental AOP concept called introduction.
*
* Introductions are often mixins, enabling the building of composite
* objects that can achieve many of the goals of multiple inheritance in Java.
*
*
Compared to {qlink IntroductionInfo}, this interface allows an advice to
* implement a range of interfaces that is not necessarily known in advance.
* Thus an {@link IntroductionAdvisor} can be used to specify which interfaces
* will be exposed in an advised object.
*
* @author Rod Johnson
* @since 1.1.1
* @see IntroductionInfo
* @see IntroductionAdvisor
*/
public interface DynamicIntroductionAdvice extends Advice {
/**
* Does this introduction advice implement the given interface?
* @param intf the interface to check
* @return whether the advice implements the specified interface
*/
boolean implementsInterface(Class intf);
}