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    014package org.apache.tapestry5.internal.services;
    015
    016/**
    017 * Service that generates a <a href="https://graphviz.org/doc/info/lang.html">Graphviz DOT description file</a>
    018 * for a given component's dependency graph or for the whole set of dependencies of all components.
    019 * @since 5.8.3
    020 */
    021public interface ComponentDependencyGraphvizGenerator {
    022
    023    /**
    024     * Generates the Graphviz DOT file and returns it as a Strting.
    025     * @param classNames the component (including page) class names to generate the dependency graph.
    026     * @return
    027     */
    028    String generate(String ... classNames);
    029
    030}