/*

* Copyright (c) 2008 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).

* All rights reserved.

* This component and the accompanying materials are made available

* under the terms of the License "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: 

*

*/

package com.nokia.carbide.remoteconnections.interfaces;

/**

 * The interface for the connection type extension

 */

public interface IConnectionType {

	/**

	 * A unique identifier for this connection type

	 * @return String

	 */

	String getIdentifier();

	/**

	 * The display name

	 * @return String

	 */

	String getDisplayName();

	/**

	 * A description for settings UI for this connection type

	 * @return String

	 */

	String getDescription();

	/**

	 * Return the fully qualified help context.

	 * @return String

	 * @see org.eclipse.ui.help.IWorkbenchHelpSystem#displayHelp(String contextId)

	 */

	String getHelpContext();

	/**

	 * Return a class used to create IConnection instances from UI or settings

	 * @return IConnectionFactory

	 */

	IConnectionFactory getConnectionFactory();

}