net.wimpi.text
Interface ProcessingResource

All Known Implementing Classes:

PatternMatchingResource

public interface ProcessingResource

Interface that defines a processing resource. Actually this interface tags the implementing class and only requires it to have a factory method for creating instances.
The factory method is used for creating pools of the resource.

Version:

0.2 19/11/2002

Author:

Dieter Wimberger

See Also:

ResourcePool

Method Summary

ProcessingResource

createResource() Returns a reference to a ProcessingResource.

Method Detail

createResource

public ProcessingResource createResource()

Returns a reference to a ProcessingResource. This resource can be either newly created or cloned, however the implementation wishes to handle it.

Returns:

the newly created or cloned ProcessingResource instance.