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.

 * 

 */

/*

 * AUTHORS (In addition to CIT):

 * 2008 Geographic Information research group: http://www.geoinfo.uji.es

 * Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Inform?ticos (LSI)

 * Universitat Jaume I   

 */

package org.gvsig.metadata;

import org.gvsig.tools.locator.BaseLocator;

import org.gvsig.tools.locator.LocatorException;

/**

 * 

 * Locator that provides the Metadata manager instance.

 * 

 * @author gvSIG Team

 * @author <a href="mailto:reinhold@uji.es">cmartin</a>

 * @version $Id$

 * 

 */

public class MetadataLocator extends BaseLocator {

        public static final String METADATA_MANAGER_NAME = "org.gvsig.metadata.manager";

        private static final String METADATA_MANAGER_DESCRIPTION = "Implementation for MetadataManager";

        /**

         * Unique instance.

         */

        private static final MetadataLocator instance = new MetadataLocator();

        /**

         * Return the singleton instance.

         * 

         * @return the singleton instance

         */

        public static MetadataLocator getInstance() {

                return instance;

        }

        /**

         * Return a reference to MetadataManager.

         * 

         * @return a reference to MetadataManager

         * @throws org.gvsig.tools.locator.LocatorException

         *             if there is no access to the class or the class cannot be

         *             instantiated

         * @see org.gvsig.tools.locator.Locator#get(String)

         */

        public static MetadataManager getMetadataManager() throws LocatorException {

                return (MetadataManager) getInstance().get(METADATA_MANAGER_NAME);

        }

        /**

         * Registers the Class implementing the MetadataManager interface.

         * 

         * @param clazz

         *            implementing the MetadataManager interface

         */

        public static void registerMetadataManager(Class clazz) {

                getInstance().register(METADATA_MANAGER_NAME,

                                METADATA_MANAGER_DESCRIPTION, clazz);

        }

}