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1   /**
2    * Copyright 2005-2012 The Kuali Foundation
3    *
4    * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5    * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6    * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7    *
8    * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
9    *
10   * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11   * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12   * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13   * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14   * limitations under the License.
15   */
16  package org.kuali.rice.ksb.api.registry;
17  
18  /**
19   * Represents a service endpoint that has been published to the service registry.
20   * Includes a reference to both {@link ServiceInfoContract} and
21   * {@link ServiceDescriptorContract} instances which compose the two different
22   * pieces of information about a service endpoint.
23   * 
24   * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
25   *
26   */
27  public interface ServiceEndpointContract {
28  
29  	/**
30  	 * Returns the service information for this endpoint.
31  	 * 
32  	 * @return the service information for this endpoint, should never return null
33  	 */
34  	ServiceInfoContract getInfo();
35  	
36  	/**
37  	 * Returns the service descriptor for this endpoint.
38  	 * 
39  	 * @return the service descriptor for this endpoint, should never return null
40  	 */
41  	ServiceDescriptorContract getDescriptor();
42  	
43  }