001/* 002 * SonarQube, open source software quality management tool. 003 * Copyright (C) 2008-2014 SonarSource 004 * mailto:contact AT sonarsource DOT com 005 * 006 * SonarQube is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 007 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public 008 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either 009 * version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 010 * 011 * SonarQube is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 012 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014 * Lesser General Public License for more details. 015 * 016 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 017 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 018 * Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. 019 */ 020package org.sonar.api.profiles; 021 022import org.sonar.api.ExtensionPoint; 023import org.sonar.api.server.ServerSide; 024import org.sonar.api.utils.ValidationMessages; 025 026/** 027 * Define a profile which is automatically registered during sonar startup. 028 * The components <code>AnnotationProfileParser</code> and <code>XMLProfileParser</code> can be used to help implementing the method create(). 029 * 030 * @since 2.3 031 */ 032@ServerSide 033@ExtensionPoint 034public abstract class ProfileDefinition { 035 036 public abstract RulesProfile createProfile(ValidationMessages validation); 037 038}