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Roles are a powerful way for designing complex behaviours while keeping good practices such as Single Responsibility, Dependency Inversion and Interface Segregation.

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/*
 * #%L
 * *********************************************************************************************************************
 *
 * These Foolish Things - Miscellaneous utilities
 * http://thesefoolishthings.tidalwave.it - git clone [email protected]:tidalwave/thesefoolishthings-src.git
 * %%
 * Copyright (C) 2009 - 2016 Tidalwave s.a.s. (http://tidalwave.it)
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package it.tidalwave.role;

import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
import it.tidalwave.util.Finder;
import it.tidalwave.util.NotFoundException;
import it.tidalwave.util.spi.FinderSupport;

/***********************************************************************************************************************
 *
 * The role of a composite object, that is an object which contains children. They are exposed by means of a
 * {@link Finder}.
 *
 * @stereotype Role
 *
 * @author  Fabrizio Giudici
 * @version $Id$
 * @it.tidalwave.javadoc.stable
 *
 **********************************************************************************************************************/
public interface Composite>
  {
    //@bluebook-begin other
    public static final Class Composite = Composite.class;

    /*******************************************************************************************************************
     *
     * A default Composite with no children.
     *
     ******************************************************************************************************************/
    public final static Composite> DEFAULT = new Composite>()
      {
        @Override @Nonnull
        public Finder