001    /**
002     * Copyright 2005-2011 The Kuali Foundation
003     *
004     * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005     * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006     * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007     *
008     * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
009     *
010     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011     * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
012     * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
013     * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
014     * limitations under the License.
015     */
016    package org.kuali.rice.ksb.api.registry;
017    
018    /**
019     * Represents a service endpoint that has been published to the service registry.
020     * Includes a reference to both {@link ServiceInfoContract} and
021     * {@link ServiceDescriptorContract} instances which compose the two different
022     * pieces of information about a service endpoint.
023     * 
024     * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
025     *
026     */
027    public interface ServiceEndpointContract {
028    
029            /**
030             * Returns the service information for this endpoint.
031             * 
032             * @return the service information for this endpoint, should never return null
033             */
034            ServiceInfoContract getInfo();
035            
036            /**
037             * Returns the service descriptor for this endpoint.
038             * 
039             * @return the service descriptor for this endpoint, should never return null
040             */
041            ServiceDescriptorContract getDescriptor();
042            
043    }