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package org.fabric3.spi.binding.provider;

import javax.xml.namespace.QName;

import org.fabric3.spi.model.instance.LogicalChannel;
import org.fabric3.spi.model.instance.LogicalWire;

/**
 * Implementations are responsible for configuring a concrete binding for an inter-process (remote) wire or channel that uses binding.sca.
 * 
 * For a given wire or chanel, a variety of transport protocols may potentially be used for the concrete binding. Which provider is selected depends
 * on the algorithm in-force in a particular domain. For example, a domain may use a weighted algorithm where a particular provider is preferred.
 *
 * @version $Rev: 9763 $ $Date: 2011-01-03 00:48:06 +0000 (Mon, 03 Jan 2011) $
 */
public interface BindingProvider {

    /**
     * Returns the unique binding type.
     *
     * @return the unique binding type
     */
    QName getType();

    /**
     * Determines if this binding provider can be used as a remote transport for a wire. Implementations must take into account required intents.
     *
     * @param wire the wire
     * @return if the binding provider can wire from the source to target.
     */
    BindingMatchResult canBind(LogicalWire wire);

    /**
     * Determines if this binding provider can be used as a remote transport for channel.
     *
     * @param channel the channel
     * @return if the binding provider can be used
     */
    BindingMatchResult canBind(LogicalChannel channel);

    /**
     * Configures binding information for a wire.
     *
     * @param wire the wire
     * @throws BindingSelectionException if some error is encountered that inhibits binding configuration from being generated
     */
    void bind(LogicalWire wire) throws BindingSelectionException;

    /**
     * Configures binding information for a channel.
     *
     * @param channel the channel
     * @throws BindingSelectionException if some error is encountered that inhibits binding configuration from being generated
     */
    void bind(LogicalChannel channel) throws BindingSelectionException;

}