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/* 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.

* 

*/

/*

* AUTHORS (In addition to CIT):

* 2008 Iver T.I.  {{Task}}

*/

package org.gvsig.gpe;

import java.util.Properties;

/**

 * This class is used to add properties to the {@link GPEDefaults}.

 * Each parser or writer that need configurable properties to work

 * have to use this class to provide them. 

 * <p>

 * The library uses the SPI (Service Provider Interface) mechanism to

 * add a set of configurable properties. The information about how

 * it is possible to add new properties can be read in 

 * {@link GPEDefaults}

 * </p>

 * @see {@link GPEDeafults} 

 */

public interface IGPEProperties {

        /**

         * Returns a set of properties that are registered in 

         * {@link GPEDefaults} and can be read and written by the

         * consumer application.

         */

        public Properties getProperties();        

}