org.eclipse.swordfish.core.resolver.registry
Interface EndpointDocumentProvider

All Superinterfaces:

PrioritizedProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractDocumentProvider, FilesystemDocumentProvider, SwordfishRegistryProvider

public interface EndpointDocumentProvider
extends PrioritizedProvider

Interface of the provider responsible for retrieval of service related information (descriptions, policies) from different kinds of location.

Method Summary

java.util.Collection<ServiceDescription<?>>

getServiceProviderDescriptions(javax.xml.namespace.QName interfaceName) Perform a query to the registry it can communicate with and returns a Collection of ServiceDescription objects implementing specified interface.

Methods inherited from interface org.eclipse.swordfish.core.resolver.provider.PrioritizedProvider

getPriority

Method Detail

getServiceProviderDescriptions

java.util.Collection<ServiceDescription<?>> getServiceProviderDescriptions(javax.xml.namespace.QName interfaceName)

Perform a query to the registry it can communicate with and returns a Collection of ServiceDescription objects implementing specified interface.

Parameters:

interfaceName - A qualified name of the interface of the service. Corresponds to the value of portType element.

Returns:

A Collection of the service descriptions providing operations specified by given port type. Returns an empty collection if no service descriptions were found.