/**
*    Copyright (c) 2008 The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior
*    University
* 
*    Licensed under the Apache 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.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
*    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
*    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
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**/

package org.openflow.protocol;

/**
 *
 * @author David Erickson (daviderickson@cs.stanford.edu)
 */
public interface Instantiable<E> {

    /**
     * Create a new instance of a given subclass.
     * @return the new instance.
     */
    public E instantiate();
}