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+/*\r
+\r
+ Derby - Class org.apache.derby.iapi.services.loader.GeneratedClass\r
+\r
+ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more\r
+ contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with\r
+ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.\r
+ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0\r
+ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with\r
+ the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at\r
+\r
+ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0\r
+\r
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software\r
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,\r
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.\r
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and\r
+ limitations under the License.\r
+\r
+ */\r
+\r
+package org.apache.derby.iapi.services.loader;\r
+\r
+import org.apache.derby.iapi.error.StandardException;\r
+import org.apache.derby.iapi.services.context.Context;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ A meta-class that represents a generated class.\r
+ (Similar to java.lang.Class).\r
+*/\r
+\r
+public interface GeneratedClass {\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ Return the name of the generated class.\r
+ */\r
+ public String getName();\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ Return a new object that is an instance of the represented\r
+ class. The object will have been initialised by the no-arg\r
+ constructor of the represneted class.\r
+ (Similar to java.lang.Class.newInstance).\r
+\r
+ @exception StandardException Standard Derby error policy\r
+\r
+ */\r
+ public Object newInstance(Context context)\r
+ throws StandardException;\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ Obtain a handle to the method with the given name\r
+ that takes no arguments.\r
+\r
+ @exception StandardException Standard Derby error policy\r
+ */\r
+ public GeneratedMethod getMethod(String simpleName)\r
+ throws StandardException;\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ Return the class reload version that this class was built at.\r
+ */\r
+ public int getClassLoaderVersion();\r
+}\r
+\r