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 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
 *
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package org.hibernate.boot.archive.spi;

import java.net.URL;

Contract for building ArchiveDescriptor instances.
Author:
Steve Ebersole/**
 * Contract for building ArchiveDescriptor instances.
 *
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 */
public interface ArchiveDescriptorFactory {
	
Build a descriptor of the archive indicated by the given url
Params:
url – The url to the archive
Returns:
The descriptor/**
	 * Build a descriptor of the archive indicated by the given url
	 *
	 * @param url The url to the archive
	 *
	 * @return The descriptor
	 */
	public ArchiveDescriptor buildArchiveDescriptor(URL url);

	
Build a descriptor of the archive indicated by the path relative to the given url
Params:
url – The url to the archive
path – The path within the given url that refers to the archive
Returns:
The descriptor/**
	 * Build a descriptor of the archive indicated by the path relative to the given url
	 *
	 * @param url The url to the archive
	 * @param path The path within the given url that refers to the archive
	 *
	 * @return The descriptor
	 */
	public ArchiveDescriptor buildArchiveDescriptor(URL url, String path);

	
Given a URL which defines an entry within a JAR (really any "bundled archive" such as a jar file, zip, etc)
and an entry within that JAR, find the URL to the JAR itself.
Params:
url – The URL to an entry within a JAR
entry – The entry that described the thing referred to by the URL relative to the JAR
Throws:
IllegalArgumentException – Generally indicates a problem  with malformed urls.
Returns:
The URL to the JAR/**
	 * Given a URL which defines an entry within a JAR (really any "bundled archive" such as a jar file, zip, etc)
	 * and an entry within that JAR, find the URL to the JAR itself.
	 *
	 * @param url The URL to an entry within a JAR
	 * @param entry The entry that described the thing referred to by the URL relative to the JAR
	 *
	 * @return The URL to the JAR
	 *
	 * @throws IllegalArgumentException Generally indicates a problem  with malformed urls.
	 */
	public URL getJarURLFromURLEntry(URL url, String entry) throws IllegalArgumentException;

	
Not used!
Params:
jarPath – The jar path
Returns:
The url from the path?
Deprecated:
Not used!/**
	 * Not used!
	 *
	 * @param jarPath The jar path
	 *
	 * @return The url from the path?
	 *
	 * @deprecated Not used!
	 */
	@Deprecated
	@SuppressWarnings("UnusedDeclaration")
	public URL getURLFromPath(String jarPath);
}