1 /*
2 * Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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15 *
16 */
17 package org.apache.asn1.codec.stateful;
18
19 /***
20 * A factory for creating new StatefulEncoders.
21 *
22 * @author <a href="mailto:dev@directory.apache.org">Apache Directory Project</a>
23 * @version $Rev: 157644 $
24 */
25 public interface EncoderFactory
26 {
27 /***
28 * Creates a new chunking state based encoder.
29 *
30 * @return a new chunking state based encoder
31 */
32 StatefulEncoder createEncoder();
33 }