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package com.sun.jersey.spi.container;

import com.sun.jersey.api.container.ContainerException;

/**
 * Service-provider interface for creating Web application instances.
 * 
 * An implementation (a service-provider) identifies itself by placing a 
 * provider-configuration file (if not already present), 
 * "com.sun.research.ws.rest.spi.container.WebApplicationProvider" in the 
 * resource directory META-INF/services, and including the fully qualified
 * service-provider-class of the implementation in the file.
 * 
 * Only the first registered provider in the provider-configuration file will
 * be used any subsequent providers (if present) will be ignored.
 *
 * @author [email protected]
 */
public interface WebApplicationProvider {

    /**
     * Instantiate a new {@link WebApplication}.
     * 
     * @return the Web application.
     * @throws ContainerException if there is an error creating the Web application.
     */
    public abstract WebApplication createWebApplication()
        throws ContainerException;    
}