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The Dolphin Platform is a framework that implements the presentation model pattern and provides amodern way to create enterprise applications. The Platform provides several client implementations that all canbe used in combination with a general sever API.

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/*
 * Copyright 2015-2017 Canoo Engineering AG.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache 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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package com.canoo.dolphin.server.binding;

import com.canoo.dolphin.binding.Binding;
import com.canoo.dolphin.mapping.Property;

/**
 * A component that can be use to create bindings between properties (see {@link Property}). All properties that are
 * bound to the same qualifier (see {@link Qualifier}) will be automatically updated once one of the properties change
 * its value.
 */
public interface PropertyBinder {

    /**
     * Method to bind a property to a qualifier
     * @param property the property
     * @param qualifier the qualifier
     * @param  generic type of the property
     * @return a binding that can be used to unbind the property
     */
     Binding bind(Property property, Qualifier qualifier);

}