Application: gvSIG desktop

/* gvSIG. Geographic Information System of the Valencian Government

 *

 * Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Infrastructures and Transports Department

 * of the Valencian Government (CIT)

 *

 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2

 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

 *

 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

 * GNU General Public License for more details.

 *

 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,

 * MA  02110-1301, USA.

 *

 */

package org.gvsig.exportto.swing.spi;

import org.gvsig.exportto.swing.ExporttoSwingManager;

import org.gvsig.tools.service.ServiceException;

import org.gvsig.tools.service.spi.ProviderFactory;

/**

 * @author gvSIG Team

 * @version $Id$

 * 

 */

public interface ExporttoSwingProviderFactory extends ProviderFactory {

    /**

     * Return if a provider supports a data type.

     * 

     * @param providerType

     *            the provider type. One of the constants defined in the

     *            {@link ExporttoSwingManager}.

     * @return

     *         if the provider supports a dataType.

     * @throws ServiceException

     */

    public boolean support(int providerType) throws ServiceException;

    /**

     * @return a description for the provider factory

     */

    public String getDescription();

}