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package com.sun.xml.internal.ws.api.wsdl.parser;
import com.sun.istack.internal.NotNull;
import com.sun.istack.internal.Nullable;
import org.xml.sax.EntityResolver;
/**
* Extension point for resolving metadata using wsimport.
* <p/>
* wsimport would get a {@link MetaDataResolver} using this factory and from it will resolve all the wsdl/schema
* metadata.
*
* Implementor of this class must provide a zero argument constructor so that
* it can be loaded during service lookup mechanism.
*
* @author Vivek Pandey
* @see com.sun.xml.internal.ws.api.wsdl.parser.MetaDataResolver#resolve(java.net.URI)
*/
public abstract class MetadataResolverFactory {
/**
* Gets a {@link com.sun.xml.internal.ws.api.wsdl.parser.MetaDataResolver}
*
* @param resolver
*/
public abstract
@NotNull
MetaDataResolver metadataResolver(@Nullable EntityResolver resolver);
}