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* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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*
* Contributors:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.core.runtime;
/**
* This interface describes a registry contributor - an entity that supplies information
* to the extension registry.
* <p>
* Registry contributor objects can be obtained by calling {@link IExtensionPoint#getContributor()},
* {@link IExtension#getContributor()}, and {@link IConfigurationElement#getContributor()}.
* Alternatively, a contributor factory appropriate for the registry in use can be called to directly
* obtain an IContributor object.
* </p><p>
* This interface can be used without OSGi running.
* </p><p>
* This interface is not intended to be implemented or extended by clients.
* </p>
* @see org.eclipse.core.runtime.ContributorFactoryOSGi
* @see org.eclipse.core.runtime.ContributorFactorySimple
*
* @since org.eclipse.equinox.registry 3.2
* @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
* @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients.
*/
public interface IContributor {
/**
* Provides name of the contributor (e.g., "org.eclipse.core.runtime").
*
* @return name of the registry contributor
*/
public String getName();
}