Initial Contribution
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+/**
+ * @author Sergey I. Salishev
+ * @version $Revision: 1.2 $
+ */
+package javax.imageio.metadata;
+
+/*
+ * @author Sergey I. Salishev
+ * @version $Revision: 1.2 $
+ */
+
+/**
+ * The IIOMetadataController interface provides a method for
+ * implementing objects to activate the controller without
+ * defining how the controller obtains values.
+ */
+public interface IIOMetadataController {
+
+ /**
+ * Activates a controller.
+ *
+ * @param metadata the metadata to be modified.
+ *
+ * @return true if the IIOMetadata has been modified,
+ * false otherwise.
+ */
+ public boolean activate(IIOMetadata metadata);
+}
+