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 * Copyright (c) 2002 - 2006 IBM Corporation.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/

package com.ibm.wala.classLoader;

import java.io.IOException;

import com.ibm.wala.ipa.callgraph.AnalysisScope;
import com.ibm.wala.ipa.cha.IClassHierarchy;
import com.ibm.wala.types.ClassLoaderReference;

/**
 */
public interface ClassLoaderFactory {

  /**
   * Return a class loader corresponding to a given
   * class loader identifier.  Create one if necessary.
   * @param classLoaderReference identifier for the desired class loader
   * @return IClassLoader
   */
  IClassLoader getLoader(ClassLoaderReference classLoaderReference, IClassHierarchy cha, AnalysisScope scope)
    throws IOException;
}
