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016
017package org.springframework.aop.aspectj.annotation;
018
019import org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectInstanceFactory;
020
021/**
022 * Subinterface of {@link org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectInstanceFactory}
023 * that returns {@link AspectMetadata} associated with AspectJ-annotated classes.
024 *
025 * <p>Ideally, AspectInstanceFactory would include this method itself, but because
026 * AspectMetadata uses Java-5-only {@link org.aspectj.lang.reflect.AjType},
027 * we need to split out this subinterface.
028 *
029 * @author Rod Johnson
030 * @since 2.0
031 * @see AspectMetadata
032 * @see org.aspectj.lang.reflect.AjType
033 */
034public interface MetadataAwareAspectInstanceFactory extends AspectInstanceFactory {
035
036        /**
037         * Return the AspectJ AspectMetadata for this factory's aspect.
038         * @return the aspect metadata
039         */
040        AspectMetadata getAspectMetadata();
041
042        /**
043         * Return the best possible creation mutex for this factory.
044         * @return the mutex object (may be {@code null} for no mutex to use)
045         * @since 4.3
046         */
047        Object getAspectCreationMutex();
048
049}