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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2010-2014, Miklos Foldenyi, Andras Szabolcs Nagy, Abel Hegedus, Akos Horvath, Zoltan Ujhelyi and Daniel Varro
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v20.html.
+ * 
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.viatra.dse.statecode;
+
+/**
+ * Interface for a factory class that creates instances of {@link IStateCoder} objects. This is required because state
+ * coders have to be created on-demand if the design space exploration process decides that a new thread is to be
+ * spawned. Since each thread requires it's own working model instance and a state coder is linked to the underlying
+ * model, a new {@link IStateCoder} needs to be created per processing thread.
+ * 
+ * @author Miklos Foldenyi, Andras Szabolcs Nagy
+ * 
+ */
+public interface IStateCoderFactory {
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a new {@link IStateCoder} instance specific to this {@link IStateCoderFactory}.
+     * 
+     * @return the new {@link IStateCoder} instance specific to this working model.
+     */
+    IStateCoder createStateCoder();
+
+}