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package org.apache.soap.util;

import javax.servlet.* ;
import javax.servlet.http.* ;
import org.apache.soap.* ;
import org.apache.soap.rpc.* ;
import org.apache.soap.server.* ;

/**
 * A <code>Provider</code> ...
 *
 * @author Dug (dug@us.ibm.com)
 *
 * A provider's function is split into two pieces, locating the
 * service (which also includes any verification that the service can
 * be execute at all and by the client), and actually running it.
 *
 * Its up to the 'invoke' method to not only call the actual service
 * up to grab and format the repsonse into a SOAP Repsonse object.
 *
 */
public interface Provider
{
  public void locate( DeploymentDescriptor dd,
                      Envelope             env,
                      Call                 call,
                      String               methodName,
                      String               targetObjectURI,
                      SOAPContext          reqContext)
                throws SOAPException ;
  public void invoke(SOAPContext req, SOAPContext res) throws SOAPException ;
}