1   /*
2    *  Copyright (c) 1998-2005, The University of Sheffield.
3    *
4    *  This file is part of GATE (see http://gate.ac.uk/), and is free
5    *  software, licenced under the GNU Library General Public License,
6    *  Version 2, June 1991 (in the distribution as file licence.html,
7    *  and also available at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/licence.html).
8    *
9    *  Julien Nioche 04/03/2005
10   *
11   *
12   */
13  package gate.creole.ml;
14  
15  /**
16   * This interface is used for wrappers to Machine Learning engines. All classes
17   * implementing this interface should have a public constructor that takes no
18   * parameters. It extends MLEngine by providing more information about the
19   * capacities of the engine.
20   */
21  public interface AdvancedMLEngine extends MLEngine{
22    /**
23     * Returns true if the engine supports BatchMode, returns false otherwise.
24     */
25    public boolean supportsBatchMode();
26  }