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+/*
+* Copyright (c) 2007 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies). 
+* All rights reserved.
+* This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+* under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+* which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+* at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+*
+* Initial Contributors:
+* Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+*
+* Contributors:
+*
+* Description:
+*
+* Creates trace objects and provides configurable rules for trace object creation
+*
+*/
+package com.nokia.tracecompiler.model;
+
+/**
+ * Allows registration of rules into the trace object factory
+ * 
+ */
+public interface TraceObjectRuleFactory {
+
+	/**
+	 * Called before the rules of a new object are processed by object factory
+	 * 
+	 * @param object
+	 *            new object
+	 */
+	public void preProcessNewRules(TraceObject object);
+
+	/**
+	 * Called after the rules of a new object are processed by object factory
+	 * 
+	 * @param object
+	 *            new object
+	 */
+	public void postProcessNewRules(TraceObject object);
+
+	/**
+	 * Creates an extension based on extension name
+	 * 
+	 * @param object
+	 *            the target object
+	 * @param name
+	 *            the name of the extension
+	 * @return the new extension
+	 */
+	public TraceModelPersistentExtension createExtension(TraceObject object,
+			String name);
+
+}