/**
 * Copyright 2005-2013 The Kuali Foundation
 *
 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
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package org.kuali.rice.kew.plugin;

import java.util.List;

import org.kuali.rice.core.api.resourceloader.ResourceLoader;
import org.kuali.rice.core.api.resourceloader.ResourceLoader;

/**
 * Maintains a registry of Plugins and allows for loading of resources from those plugins.  It is
 * up to the PluginRegistry implementation to determine the resource loading strategy if it contains
 * more than a single plugin.
 * 
 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
 */
public interface PluginRegistry extends ResourceLoader {
    
	public List<PluginEnvironment> getPluginEnvironments();
	
	public void addPluginEnvironment(PluginEnvironment pluginEnvironment);
	
	public PluginEnvironment removePluginEnvironment(String pluginName);
	
	public PluginEnvironment getPluginEnvironment(String pluginName);
    
}
