ImportStrategy.java

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package org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.commonarchivecore.internal.strategy;



import org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.commonarchivecore.internal.Archive;

/**
 * ImportStrategy knows how to interpret the information in an archive, usually in deployment
 * descriptors, to build up a model of the contained objects.
 */
public interface ImportStrategy extends ArchiveStrategy {
	/**
	 * Helper method used for copying archives; create a new instance of this kind of strategy
	 */
	public ImportStrategy createImportStrategy(Archive old, Archive newArchive);

	/**
	 * Do whatever is necessary to bring in metadata from the archive and set the deployment
	 * descriptors to the standard form that the apis can recognize
	 */
	public void importMetaData() throws Exception;

	public boolean isEJB10();
}