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package org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.spi;

import java.util.Collection;

import org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.api.Bootstrap;
import org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.api.ServiceRegistry;
import org.jboss.weld.ejb.spi.EjbDescriptor;

/**
 * Represents a CDI bean deployment archive.
 *
 * A deployment archive is any library jar, library directory, EJB jar, rar archive or any war WEB-INF/classes directory
 * contained in the Java EE deployment (as defined in the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) Specification, v6, Section
 * 8.1.2).
 *
 * TODO Java SE definition of a deployment archive
 *
 * A bean deployment archive is any deployment archive with a META-INF/beans.xml file, or for a war, with a WEB-INF/beans.xml.
 *
 * The container is allowed to specify a deployment archive as {@link BeanDeploymentArchive} even if no beans.xml is present
 * (for example, a container could define a deployment archive with container specific metadata to be a bean deployment
 * archive).
 *
 * @see Deployment
 *
 * @author Pete Muir
 *
 */
public interface BeanDeploymentArchive {

    /**
     * Get the bean deployment archives which are accessible to this bean deployment archive and adjacent to it in the
     * deployment archive graph.
     *
     * Cycles in the accessible BeanDeploymentArchive graph are allowed. If a cycle is detected by Weld, it will be
     * automatically removed by Web Beans. This means any implementor of this interface don't need to worry about circularities.
     *
     * @return the accessible bean deployment archives
     */
    Collection getBeanDeploymentArchives();

    /**
     * Gets all classes in the bean deployment archive
     *
     * @return the classes, empty if no classes are present
     */
    Collection getBeanClasses();

    /**
     * Get any deployment descriptors in the bean deployment archive.
     *
     * The container will return a a merged view of the beans.xml per bean deployment archive. This will normally represent a
     * single file such as the physical META-INF/beans.xml or WEB-INF/beans.xml)
     *
     * The container may choose to parse beans.xml itself, or it may use Weld to parse beans.xml
     *
     * @return the parsed beans.xml
     * @see {@link Bootstrap#parse(java.net.URL)}
     * @see {@link Bootstrap#parse(Iterable)}
     */
    BeansXml getBeansXml();

    /**
     * Get all the EJBs in the deployment archive
     *
     * @return the EJBs, or empty if no EJBs are present or if this is not an EJB archive
     */
    Collection> getEjbs();

    /**
     * Get the Bean Deployment Archive scoped services
     *
     * @return
     */
    ServiceRegistry getServices();

    /**
     * Get a string which uniquely identifies the {@link BeanDeploymentArchive} within the {@link Deployment}. The identifier
     * must be consistent between multiple occurrences of this deployment.
     *
     * @return
     */
    String getId();
}




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