/**
* AnalyzerBeans
* Copyright (C) 2014 Neopost - Customer Information Management
*
* This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, modify,
* copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU
* Lesser General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
* or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License
* for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with this distribution; if not, write to:
* Free Software Foundation, Inc.
* 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
* Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*/
package org.eobjects.analyzer.beans.api;
import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;
/**
* Classes that are annotated with the @TransformerBean annotation are
* components for data transformation.
*
* A @TransformerBean annotated class should implement the Transformer
* interface.
*
* TransformerBeans are by default assumed to be concurrent and thread-safe.
* This behaviour can be overridden by using the @Concurrent annotation.
*
* @see Transformer
* @see Concurrent
*/
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Documented
public @interface TransformerBean {
/**
* The display name of the Transformer. The display name should be humanly
* readable and is presented to the user in User Interfaces.
*
* @return the name of the TransformerBean
*/
String value();
}