001 /* 002 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 003 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 004 * distributed with this work for additional information 005 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 006 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 007 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 008 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 009 * 010 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 011 * 012 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 013 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 014 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 015 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 016 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 017 * under the License. 018 * 019 */ 020 021 package org.apache.directory.server.kerberos.shared.io.encoder; 022 023 024 /** 025 * @author <a href="mailto:dev@directory.apache.org">Apache Directory Project</a> 026 * @version $Rev: 540371 $, $Date: 2007-05-22 02:00:43 +0200 (Tue, 22 May 2007) $ 027 */ 028 public interface EncoderFactory 029 { 030 /** 031 * Returns an {@link Encoder}. 032 * 033 * @return The {@link Encoder}. 034 */ 035 public Encoder getEncoder(); 036 }