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+//
+// $Id: Context.java,v 1.1 2001/07/20 19:46:56 mdb Exp $
+
+package com.samskivert.util;
+
+/**
+ * The context interface serves as a basis for a system whereby an
+ * application that makes use of a number of decoupled services, can
+ * provide implementations of components needed by those services and do
+ * with a single object that implements a host of different
+ * <code>Context</code> interfaces, each of which encapsulates the needs
+ * of a particular component. This is hard to explain in the abstract, and
+ * easy to understand in the concrete, but this is documentation and I'm
+ * lazy, so you'll have to try to cope with the abstract.
+ */
+public interface Context
+{
+    /**
+     * Returns a reference to the config object in use in this application.
+     */
+    public Config getConfig ();
+}