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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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/*
 *  FeatureBearer.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, 7/Feb/2000
 *
 *  $Id: FeatureBearer.java 16419 2012-12-12 17:35:53Z adamfunk $
 */

package gate.util;
import gate.FeatureMap;

/** Classes whose instances each have a FeatureMap.
  */
public interface FeatureBearer
{
  /**
   * Get the feature set. This must follow the Java convention of returning a
   * reference to the stored FeatureMap and not a copy. This means changes to
   * the returned FeatureMap will be visible to any future callers of this
   * method. It also means that there is no need to call setFeatures having
   * updated the FeatureMap.
   */
  public FeatureMap getFeatures();

  /** Set the feature set */
  public void setFeatures(FeatureMap features);

} // interface FeatureBearer