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* org.openmicroscopy.shoola.svc.SvcDescriptor
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package org.openmicroscopy.shoola.svc;
//Java imports
//Third-party libraries
//Application-internal dependencies
/**
* A marker interface to denote classes that are used to describe a service
* during the lookup and creation phase.
* Implementing classes usually hold some service-specific parameters that
* have to be used to lookup and/or create the service.
*
*
* @author Jean-Marie Burel
* <a href="mailto:j.burel@dundee.ac.uk">j.burel@dundee.ac.uk</a>
* @author Donald MacDonald
* <a href="mailto:donald@lifesci.dundee.ac.uk">donald@lifesci.dundee.ac.uk</a>
* @version 3.0
* @since OME3.0
*/
public interface SvcDescriptor
{
/**
* Returns a human readable name for the service that this descriptor
* identifies.
*
* @return See above.
*/
public String getSvcName();
}