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package com.sun.jersey.spi.container;
import com.sun.jersey.api.container.ContainerException;
import com.sun.jersey.api.core.ResourceConfig;
/**
* Service-provider interface for creating container instances.
*
* A container instance will be created according to the
* the supporting generic type of the container.
*
* A provider shall support a one-to-one mapping between a type that is not of
* the type Object. A provider may support
* more than one one-to-one mapping or a mapping of sub-types of a type
* (that is not of the type Object). A provider shall not conflict with other
* providers.
*
* An implementation (a service-provider) identifies itself by placing a
* provider-configuration file (if not already present),
* "com.sun.jersey.spi.container.ContainerProvider" in the
* resource directory META-INF/services, and including the fully qualified
* service-provider-class of the implementation in the file.
*
* @param the type of the container.
* @author [email protected]
*/
public interface ContainerProvider {
/**
* Create an container of type T.
*
* The container provider SHOULD NOT initiate the Web application. The container
* provider MAY modify the resource configuraton.
*
* @return the container, otherwise null if the provider does not support
* the requested type.
* @param type the type of the container.
* @param resourceConfig the resource configuration.
* @param application the Web application the container delegates to for
* the handling of HTTP requests.
* @throws ContainerException if there is an error creating the container.
*/
T createContainer(Class type, ResourceConfig resourceConfig,
WebApplication application)
throws ContainerException;
}