project35.soa.ontology.sources
Interface TermDescriptionSupport

All Known Subinterfaces:

DictionaryDescriptionSupport, URLDescriptionSupport

public interface TermDescriptionSupport

a marker interface that describes an ontology source which provides some kind of description of its terms. This can either be a text phrase as in the case of DictionaryDescriptionSupport or a web page as in the case of URLDescriptionSupport

in most cases, uses of this marker interfaces could be subsituted with using DictionaryDescriptionSupport so in future this interface may be deprecated.

Copyright (c) 2008 Kevin Garwood for Project35. The original code was developed by Kevin Garwood for the University of Manchester. Revisions have been made for Project35, a project that is independent of that institution. This code is licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0. The code attribution for the original code is included here:

Copyright (c) Kevin Garwood and University of Manchester 2007. All rights reserved. Licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0. For more information on the terms and conditions, please see the file "LICENSE" that is included in this distribution.

Version:

1.0

Author:

Kevin Garwood (kgarwood@users.sourceforge.net)