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GATE - general achitecture for text engineering - is open source software capable of solving almost any text processing problem. This artifact enables you to embed the core GATE Embedded with its essential dependencies. You will able to use the GATE Embedded API and load and store GATE XML documents. This artifact is the perfect dependency for CREOLE plugins or for applications that need to customize the GATE dependencies due to confict with their own dependencies or for lower footprint.

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/*
 *  ProcessingResource.java
 *
 *  Copyright (c) 1995-2012, The University of Sheffield. See the file
 *  COPYRIGHT.txt in the software or at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/COPYRIGHT.txt
 *
 *  This file is part of GATE (see http://gate.ac.uk/), and is free
 *  software, licenced under the GNU Library General Public License,
 *  Version 2, June 1991 (in the distribution as file licence.html,
 *  and also available at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/licence.html).
 *
 *  Hamish Cunningham, 11/Feb/2000
 *
 *  $Id: ProcessingResource.java 15333 2012-02-07 13:18:33Z ian_roberts $
 */

package gate;

import gate.creole.ResourceInstantiationException;

/** Models all sorts of processing resources.
  * Because run() doesn't throw exceptions, we
  * have a check() that will re-throw any exception
  * that was caught when run() was invoked.
  */
public interface ProcessingResource extends Resource, Executable
{

  /**
   * Reinitialises the processing resource. After calling this method the
   * resource should be in the state it is after calling init.
   * If the resource depends on external resources (such as rules files) then
   * the resource will re-read those resources. If the data used to create
   * the resource has changed since the resource has been created then the
   * resource will change too after calling reInit().
   */
  public void reInit() throws ResourceInstantiationException;
} // interface ProcessingResource