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package com.sun.xml.internal.ws.server.sei;
import com.sun.xml.internal.ws.api.message.Packet;
/**
* This interface needs to be implemented if a new dispatching
* mechanism needs to be plugged in. The dispatcher is plugged in the
* constructor of {@link EndpointMethodDispatcherGetter}.
*
* @author Arun Gupta
* @see EndpointMethodDispatcherGetter
*/
interface EndpointMethodDispatcher {
/**
* Returns the {@link EndpointMethodHandler} for the <code>request</code>
* {@link Packet}.
*
* @param request request packet
* @return
* non-null {@link EndpointMethodHandler} that will route the request packet.
* null to indicate that the request packet be processed by the next available
* {@link EndpointMethodDispatcher}.
* @throws DispatchException
* If the request is invalid, and processing shall be aborted with a specific fault.
*/
EndpointMethodHandler getEndpointMethodHandler(Packet request) throws DispatchException;
}