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1   /*
2    * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
3    * 
4    * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5    * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6    * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7    * 
8    *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9    * 
10   * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11   * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12   * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13   * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14   * limitations under the License.
15   */
16  package javax.xml.rpc.encoding;
17  
18  /**
19   * The javax.xml.rpc.encoding.DeserializerFactory is a factory of
20   * deserializers. A DeserializerFactory is registered with a
21   * TypeMapping instance as part of the TypeMappingRegistry.
22   *
23   * @version 1.0
24   */
25  public interface DeserializerFactory extends java.io.Serializable {
26  
27      /**
28       * Returns a Deserializer for the specified XML processing mechanism type.
29       *
30       * @param mechanismType XML processing mechanism type [TBD: definition of
31       *              valid constants]
32       *
33       * @return a Deserializer for the specified XML processing mechanism type
34       *
35       * @throws javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException if DeserializerFactory does not
36       *             support the specified XML processing mechanism
37       */
38      public Deserializer getDeserializerAs(String mechanismType);
39  
40      /**
41       * Returns an <code>Iterator</code> over the list of all XML processing
42       * mechanism types supported by this <code>DeserializerFactory</code>.
43       *
44       * @return an <code>Iterator</code> over the unique identifiers for the
45       *              supported XML processing mechanism types (as
46       *              <code>String</code>s?)
47       */
48      public java.util.Iterator getSupportedMechanismTypes();
49  }
50