001    // Copyright 2005 The Apache Software Foundation
002    //
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014    
015    package org.apache.hivemind.service.impl;
016    
017    import org.apache.hivemind.Location;
018    import org.apache.hivemind.internal.Module;
019    import org.apache.hivemind.service.ObjectProvider;
020    
021    /**
022     * Implementation of {@link org.apache.hivemind.service.ObjectProvider} that interprets the locator
023     * as a class name and converts it to a Class object. The namemay be partial; it is interpreted
024     * using the contributing module's package name.  Mapped to the "class:" prefix.
025     * 
026     * @author Howard M. Lewis Ship
027     * @since 1.1
028     */
029    public class ClassObjectProvider implements ObjectProvider
030    {
031    
032        public Object provideObject(Module contributingModule, Class propertyType, String locator,
033                Location location)
034        {
035            return contributingModule.resolveType(locator);
036        }
037    
038    }