/**

  * 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

  *

  * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php

  *

  * 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.kuali.rice.ksb.api.registry;

 /**

  * Represents a service endpoint that has been published to the service registry.

  * Includes a reference to both {@link ServiceInfoContract} and

  * {@link ServiceDescriptorContract} instances which compose the two different

  * pieces of information about a service endpoint.

  * 

  * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

  *

  */

 public interface ServiceEndpointContract {

         /**

          * Returns the service information for this endpoint.

          * 

          * @return the service information for this endpoint, should never return null

          */

         ServiceInfoContract getInfo();

         /**

          * Returns the service descriptor for this endpoint.

          * 

          * @return the service descriptor for this endpoint, should never return null

          */

         ServiceDescriptorContract getDescriptor();

 }