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0N/A * Copyright 1999 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 0N/A * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 0N/A * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 0N/A * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as 0N/A * published by the Free Software Foundation. Sun designates this 0N/A * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided 0N/A * by Sun in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. 0N/A * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT 0N/A * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or 0N/A * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License 0N/A * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that 0N/A * accompanied this code). 0N/A * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version 0N/A * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 0N/A * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. 0N/A * Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara, 0N/A * CA 95054 USA or visit www.sun.com if you need additional information or 0N/A * have any questions. 0N/A * This interface defines the contract a extension installation capable 0N/A * provided to the extension installation dependency mechanism to 0N/A * install new extensions on the user's disk 0N/A * @author Jerome Dochez 0N/A * Request the installation of an extension in the extension directory 0N/A * @param requestExtInfo information on the extension that need to be 0N/A * @param installedExtInfo information on the current compatible installed 0N/A * extension. Can be null if no current installation has been found. 0N/A * @return true if the installation is successful, false if the 0N/A * installation could not be attempted. 0N/A * @exception ExtensionInstallationException if an installation was 0N/A * attempted but did not succeed.