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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.
+ */
+package org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp2;
+
+import java.sql.Connection;
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+
+/**
+ * Abstract factory interface for creating {@link java.sql.Connection}s.
+ *
+ * @since 2.0
+ */
+public interface ConnectionFactory {
+    /**
+     * Create a new {@link java.sql.Connection} in an implementation specific fashion.
+     *
+     * @return a new {@link java.sql.Connection}
+     * @throws SQLException
+     *             if a database error occurs creating the connection
+     */
+    Connection createConnection() throws SQLException;
+}