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- /*
- * @(#)ContentHandlerFactory.java 1.5 98/03/18
- *
- * Copyright 1995-1997 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
- * 901 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, California, 94303, U.S.A.
- * All rights reserved.
- *
- * This software is the confidential and proprietary information
- * of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ("Confidential Information"). You
- * shall not disclose such Confidential Information and shall use
- * it only in accordance with the terms of the license agreement
- * you entered into with Sun.
- */
-
- package java.net;
-
- /**
- * This interface defines a factory for content handlers. An
- * implementation of this interface should map a MIME type into an
- * instance of <code>ContentHandler</code>.
- * <p>
- * This interface is used by the <code>URLStreamHandler</code> class
- * to create a <code>ContentHandler</code> for a MIME type.
- *
- * @author James Gosling
- * @version 1.5, 03/18/98
- * @see java.net.ContentHandler
- * @see java.net.URLStreamHandler
- * @since JDK1.0
- */
- public interface ContentHandlerFactory {
- /**
- * Creates a new <code>ContentHandler</code> to read an object from
- * a <code>URLStreamHandler</code>.
- *
- * @param mimetype the MIME type for which a content handler is desired.
-
- * @return a new <code>ContentHandler</code> to read an object from a
- * <code>URLStreamHandler</code>.
- * @see java.net.ContentHandler
- * @see java.net.URLStreamHandler
- * @since JDK1.0
- */
- ContentHandler createContentHandler(String mimetype);
- }
-