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package com.sun.star.report;

/**
 * The job factory collects all required properties to build a reportJob
 * object. Implementors should define a suitable set of properties to allow
 * the configuration of the created report jobs.
 *
 * How these properties are collected is beyond the scope of this interface.
 * For each type of Job, there should be separate job-factory (remote jobs
 * vs. local jobs etc).
 *
 * @author Thomas Morgner
 */
public interface ReportEngine
{

    public ReportJobDefinition createJobDefinition();

    public ReportEngineMetaData getMetaData();

    /**
     * Open points: How to define scheduling?
     *
     * @param definition
     * @return the report job definition for the job description.
     * @throws JobDefinitionException
     */
    public ReportJob createJob(ReportJobDefinition definition)
            throws JobDefinitionException;
}