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 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.event.service.spi;

import java.io.Serializable;

import org.hibernate.event.spi.EventType;
import org.hibernate.service.Service;

/**
 * Service for accessing each {@link EventListenerGroup} by {@link EventType}, as well as convenience
 * methods for managing the listeners registered in each {@link EventListenerGroup}.
 *
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 */
public interface EventListenerRegistry extends Service, Serializable {
	public <T> EventListenerGroup<T> getEventListenerGroup(EventType<T> eventType);

	public void addDuplicationStrategy(DuplicationStrategy strategy);

	public <T> void setListeners(EventType<T> type, Class<? extends T>... listeners);
	public <T> void setListeners(EventType<T> type, T... listeners);

	public <T> void appendListeners(EventType<T> type, Class<? extends T>... listeners);
	public <T> void appendListeners(EventType<T> type, T... listeners);

	public <T> void prependListeners(EventType<T> type, Class<? extends T>... listeners);
	public <T> void prependListeners(EventType<T> type, T... listeners);
}