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The private implementation classes of the Apache MyFaces Core JSF-2.0 Implementation

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package org.apache.myfaces.spi;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * This class provides an interface to override SPI handling done by
 * MyFaces.
 * 
 * This is useful on environments like in OSGi, because it allows to
 * put custom code to find SPI interfaces under META-INF/services/
 * 
 * @author Leonardo Uribe
 * @since 2.0.3
 *
 */
public abstract class ServiceProviderFinder
{
    
    /**
     * Gets the list of classes bound to the spiClass key, looking
     * for entries under META-INF/services/[spiClass]
     * 
     * @param spiClass
     * @return
     */
    public abstract List getServiceProviderList(String spiClass);
    
}