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// API class

package org.mozilla.javascript;

/**
 * Interface to define classes from generated byte code.
 */
public interface GeneratedClassLoader {

    /**
     * Define a new Java class.
     * Classes created via this method should have the same class loader.
     *
     * @param name fully qualified class name
     * @param data class byte code
     * @return new class object
     */
    public Class defineClass(String name, byte[] data);

    /**
     * Link the given class.
     *
     * @param cl Class instance returned from the previous call to
     *        {@link #defineClass(String, byte[])}
     * @see java.lang.ClassLoader#resolveClass(Class)
     */
    public void linkClass(Class cl);
}
