1 package org.lcsim.detector.converter;
2
3 import org.jdom.Element;
4 import org.jdom.JDOMException;
5
6 /**
7 *
8 * A generic interface for converting from JDOM/XML
9 * to runtime objects.
10 *
11 * The activate method does not return a specific type. It
12 * can create one or more Java objects, but these must be
13 * registered with a data store to be accessed later. Most
14 * of the important types in org.lcsim.detector, such as ISolid,
15 * are automatically registered with a user-accessible data store.
16 *
17 * @author Jeremy McCormick <jeremym@slac.stanford.edu>
18 */
19 public interface XMLConverter
20 {
21 public void convert(Element element) throws JDOMException;
22 }