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package org.apache.stanbol.ontologymanager.ontonet.api.io;
/**
* An ontology input source provides a point for loading an ontology. Currently it provides two ways of
* obtaining an ontology document:
*
* <ol>
* <li>From an OWLOntology.
* <li>By dereferencing a physical IRI.
* <li>By querying a triple store.
* </ol>
*
* Consumers that use an ontology input source will attempt to obtain a concrete representation of an ontology
* in the above order. Implementations of this interface may try to dereference the IRI internally and just
* provide the OWLOntology, or directly provide the physical IRI for other classes to dereference.
* Implementations should allow multiple attempts at loading an ontology.
*
* @deprecated Packages, class names etc. containing "ontonet" in any capitalization are being phased out.
* Please switch to {@link org.apache.stanbol.ontologymanager.servicesapi.io.OntologyInputSource}
* as soon as possible.
*
* @see org.apache.stanbol.ontologymanager.servicesapi.io.OntologyInputSource
*
* @author alexdma
*
* @param <O>
* the root ontology object delivered by this input source.
*
*/
public interface OntologyInputSource<O> extends
org.apache.stanbol.ontologymanager.servicesapi.io.OntologyInputSource<O> {
}