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Its an port to fix bugs in OSGi support. ... The Apache Commons Discovery 0.5 component is about discovering, or finding, implementations for pluggable interfaces.

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package org.apache.commons.discovery;

/* 
 * Interface representing a mapping
 * from a set of source resource names
 * to a resultant set of resource.
 */
public interface ResourceDiscover extends ResourceNameDiscover {

    /* 
     * Locate resources that are bound to {@code resourceName}.
     *
     * @param resourceName The resource has to be located
     * @return The bound resources iterator
     */
    ResourceIterator findResources(String resourceName);

    /* 
     * Locate resources that are bound to {@code resourceNames}.
     *
     * @param resourceNames The resource has to be located
     * @return The bound resources iterator
     */
    ResourceIterator findResources(ResourceNameIterator resourceNames);

}