1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2016 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 }