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package org.apache.aries.application;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.jar.Manifest;
/**
* Provides various means of generating {@link org.apache.aries.application.ApplicationMetadata
* ApplicationMetadata} instances.
*/
public interface ApplicationMetadataFactory
{
/**
* Parse from the input stream the application manifest. This method is more
* lenient than the normal manifest parsing routine and does not limit the
* manifest to 76 bytes as a line length.
*
* @param in the inputstream of the manifest to parse.
* @return the parsed application metadata.
*
*/
public ApplicationMetadata parseApplicationMetadata(InputStream in) throws IOException;
/**
* Create the application metadata from the provided Manifest. This is provided
* so application metadata can be created from within the JVM. When reading
* from a stream the parseApplication method should be used.
*
* @param man the manifest to read from
* @return the parsed application metadata.
*/
public ApplicationMetadata createApplicationMetadata(Manifest man);
}