001/* 002 * Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Nuxeo SA (http://nuxeo.com/) and others. 003 * 004 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials 005 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 006 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at 007 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html 008 * 009 * Contributors: 010 * bstefanescu 011 * 012 * $Id$ 013 */ 014 015package org.nuxeo.runtime.api; 016 017/** 018 * A service provider. 019 * <p> 020 * A service provider is used by the framework to be able to change the way local services are found. 021 * <p> 022 * For example you may want to use a simple service provider for testing pourpose to avoid loading the nuxeo runtime 023 * framework to register services. 024 * <p> 025 * To set a service provider use: {@link DefaultServiceProvider#setProvider(ServiceProvider)} 026 * 027 * @author <a href="mailto:bs@nuxeo.com">Bogdan Stefanescu</a> 028 */ 029public interface ServiceProvider { 030 031 /** 032 * Gets the service instance given its API class. 033 */ 034 <T> T getService(Class<T> serviceClass); 035 036}