/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2004 Composent, Inc. and others. All rights reserved. This
* program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of
* the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution, and is
* available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors: Composent, Inc. - initial API and implementation
******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.ecf.discovery;
/**
* Entry point discovery container adapter. This interface exposes the ability
* to add/remove listeners for newly discovered services and service types,
* register and unregister locally provided services, and get (synch) and
* request (asynchronous) service info from a remote service provider.
* <p>
* This interface can be used by container provider implementations as an
* adapter so that calls to
* IContainer.getAdapter(IDiscoveryContainerAdapter.class) will return a
* non-null instance of a class that implements this interface. Clients can then
* proceed to use this interface to interact with the given discovery
* implementation.
*
* @deprecated Use IDisocveryLocator and IDisocveryAdvertiser instead
*/
public interface IDiscoveryContainerAdapter extends IDiscoveryLocator,
IDiscoveryAdvertiser {
}