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/*
 * Jakarta Bean Validation API
 *
 * License: Apache License, Version 2.0
 * See the license.txt file in the root directory or .
 */
package javax.validation;

import java.util.List;

import javax.validation.spi.ValidationProvider;

/**
 * Determines the list of Jakarta Bean Validation providers available in the runtime environment
 * 
 * Jakarta Bean Validation providers are identified by the presence of
 * {@code META-INF/services/javax.validation.spi.ValidationProvider}
 * files following the Service Provider pattern described
 * here.
 * 

 * Each {@code META-INF/services/javax.validation.spi.ValidationProvider} file contains the
 * list of {@link ValidationProvider} implementations each of them representing a provider.
 * 
 * Implementations must be thread-safe.
 *
 * @author Emmanuel Bernard
 */
public interface ValidationProviderResolver {

	/**
	 * Returns a list of {@link ValidationProvider} available in the runtime environment.
	 *
	 * @return list of validation providers
	 */
	List> getValidationProviders();
}