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package jakarta.ejb.spi;

import java.util.Map;
import jakarta.ejb.embeddable.EJBContainer;
import jakarta.ejb.EJBException;

/**
 * The EJBContainerProvider SPI is used by the embeddable container bootstrap class to initialize a suitable embeddable
 * container.
 *
 * @since EJB 3.1
 */
public interface EJBContainerProvider {

    /**
     * Called by the embeddable container bootstrap process to find a suitable embeddable container implementation. An
     * embeddable container provider may deem itself as appropriate for the embeddable application if any of the following
     * are true :
     *
     * 
     * The jakarta.ejb.embeddable.provider property was included in the Map passed to
     * createEJBContainer and the value of the property is the provider's implementation class.
     *
     * 
No jakarta.ejb.embeddable.provider property was specified.
     * 
     *
     * If a provider does not qualify as the provider for the embeddable application, it must return null.
     *
     * @param properties Spec-defined and/or vendor-specific properties, that were passed to
     * jakarta.ejb.embeddable.EJBContainer#createEJBContainer(Map<?,?>) call
     * @return EJBContainer instance or null
     * @throws EJBException if the container could not be successfully initialized.
     */
    public EJBContainer createEJBContainer(Map properties) throws EJBException;

}