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  * Copyright 2005-2011 The Kuali Foundation

  *

  * Licensed under the Educational Community 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

  *

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  *

  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

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 package org.kuali.rice.core.api.namespace;

 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.CoreConstants;

 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.exception.RiceIllegalArgumentException;

 import javax.jws.WebMethod;

 import javax.jws.WebParam;

 import javax.jws.WebResult;

 import javax.jws.WebService;

 import javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding;

 @WebService(name = "namespaceService", targetNamespace = CoreConstants.Namespaces.CORE_NAMESPACE_2_0)

 @SOAPBinding(style = SOAPBinding.Style.DOCUMENT, use = SOAPBinding.Use.LITERAL, parameterStyle = SOAPBinding.ParameterStyle.WRAPPED)

 public interface NamespaceService {

     /**

      * Gets a {@link Namespace} from a namespace code.

      *

      * <p>

      *   This method will return null if the namespace does not exist.

      * </p>

      *

      * @param code the code to retrieve the namespace by. cannot be blank.

      * @return a {@link Namespace} or null

      * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the code is blank

      */

     @WebMethod(operationName="getNamespace")

     @WebResult(name = "namespace")

         Namespace getNamespace(@WebParam(name = "code") String code) throws RiceIllegalArgumentException;

 }