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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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/*
 *  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).
 *
 *  Valentin Tablan 21/11/2002
 *
 *  $Id: ActionsPublisher.java 15333 2012-02-07 13:18:33Z ian_roberts $
 *
 */

package gate.gui;

import java.util.List;

import javax.swing.Action;

/**
 * This interface is used to mark resources that publish a list of actions
 * that can be performed on them.
 * Those actions will automatically be added to the appropriate menus when
 * needed.
 */

public interface ActionsPublisher {
  /**
   * Returns a list of Action objects. This method will be called everytime a
   * menu for this resource needs to be built, thus allowing for dynamic updates
   * to the list of actions.
   * A null value in this list will cause a separator to be created.
   * @return a {@link List} of {@link javax.swing.Action}s.
   */
  public List getActions();
}