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package org.jboss.arquillian.drone.spi;
/**
* Contract which allows to sort object based an precedence value. This allows to choose between different implementations
* for
* same types.
* <p>
* Support for Ajocado, Selenium and WebDriver included in the extension always has a precedence of {@code 0}, so it can
* be
* easily overridden by providing {@link org.jboss.arquillian.drone.spi.Configurator}, etc. with bigger precedence value.
*
* @see org.jboss.arquillian.drone.spi.Configurator
* @see org.jboss.arquillian.drone.spi.Instantiator
* @see org.jboss.arquillian.drone.spi.Destructor
*/
public interface Sortable {
/**
* Returns precedence of this implementation
*
* @return the precedence for current instance
*/
int getPrecedence();
}