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// $Id$

/**

* Copyright (C) 2007 EDIT

* European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy 

* http://www.e-taxonomy.eu

* 

* The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1

* See LICENSE.TXT at the top of this package for the full license terms.

*/

package eu.etaxonomy.taxeditor.annotatedlineeditor;

/**

 * Associates entity creators with classes, e.g.

 * ReferenceEditorInput with ReferenceCreator.

 *

 * @author p.ciardelli

 * @created 25.08.2009

 * @version 1.0

 */

public interface IEntityCreatorService {

	/**

	 * <p>setEntityCreator</p>

	 *

	 * @param entityCreator a {@link eu.etaxonomy.taxeditor.annotatedlineeditor.IEntityCreator} object.

	 * @param element a {@link java.lang.Object} object.

	 */

	void setEntityCreator(IEntityCreator entityCreator, Object element);

	/**

	 * <p>getEntityCreator</p>

	 *

	 * @param element a {@link java.lang.Object} object.

	 * @return a {@link eu.etaxonomy.taxeditor.annotatedlineeditor.IEntityCreator} object.

	 */

	IEntityCreator getEntityCreator(Object element);

}