This interface represents a builder that creates object factories.
The JNDI framework allows for object implementations to
be loaded in dynamically via object factories.
For example, when looking up a printer bound in the name space,
if the print service binds printer names to References, the printer
Reference could be used to create a printer object, so that
the caller of lookup can directly operate on the printer object
after the lookup. An ObjectFactory is responsible for creating
objects of a specific type. JNDI uses a default policy for using
and loading object factories. You can override this default policy
by calling NamingManager.setObjectFactoryBuilder() with an ObjectFactoryBuilder,
which contains the program-defined way of creating/loading
object factories.
Any ObjectFactoryBuilder implementation must implement this
interface that for creating object factories. |