// AID-GENERATED
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// This class was generated by AID - Abstract Interface Definition          
// DO NOT MODIFY, but use the org.freehep.aid.Aid utility to regenerate it. 
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//  This file is part of the AIDA library
//  Copyright (C) 2004 by the AIDA team.  All rights reserved.
//  This library is free software and under the terms of the
//  GNU Library General Public License described in the LGPL.txt 
package hep.aida;


/**
 * Basic user-level interface for creating a generic factory.
 * 
 * @author The AIDA team (http://aida.freehep.org/)
 *
 */

public interface IGenericFactory {

   /** The type of the factory (as specified when the factory was created).
    * @return The factory type.
    */
    public String type();

// No other methods are required here.
// Specific instances are expected to have their
// own create/destroy and possibly copy methods.
} // class or interface