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Pax Wicket Service is an OSGi extension of the Wicket framework, allowing for dynamic loading and unloading of Wicket components and pageSources.

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package org.apache.wicket.application;

import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Iterator;

/**
 * An interface to code which finds classes and resources
 * 
 * @author Jonathan Locke
 * @author Juergen Donnerstag
 */
public interface IClassResolver
{
	/**
	 * Resolves a class by name (which may or may not involve loading it; thus the name class
	 * *resolver* not *loader*).
	 * 
	 * @param classname
	 *            Fully qualified classname to find
	 * @return Class
	 * @throws ClassNotFoundException
	 */
	Class resolveClass(final String classname) throws ClassNotFoundException;


	/**
	 * Tries to load all the resources by the name that is given.
	 * 
	 * @param name
	 * @return iterator over matching resources
	 */
	Iterator getResources(String name);

}