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package javax.xml.ws;

import java.util.Map;

import javax.xml.ws.wsaddressing.W3CEndpointReference;

import org.w3c.dom.Element;

/**

 * The <code>BindingProvider</code> interface provides access to the

 * protocol binding and associated context objects for request and

 * response message processing.

 *

 * @since JAX-WS 2.0

 *

 * @see javax.xml.ws.Binding

 **/

public interface BindingProvider {

    /**

     * Standard property: User name for authentication.

     * <p>Type: <code>java.lang.String</code>

     **/

    public static final String USERNAME_PROPERTY =

            "javax.xml.ws.security.auth.username";

    /**

     * Standard property: Password for authentication.

     * <p>Type: <code>java.lang.String</code>

     **/

    public static final String PASSWORD_PROPERTY =

            "javax.xml.ws.security.auth.password";

    /**

     * Standard property: Target service endpoint address. The

     * URI scheme for the endpoint address specification MUST

     * correspond to the protocol/transport binding for the

     * binding in use.

     * <p>Type: <code>java.lang.String</code>

     **/

    public static final String ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY =

            "javax.xml.ws.service.endpoint.address";

    /**

     * Standard property: This boolean property is used by a service

     * client to indicate whether or not it wants to participate in

     * a session with a service endpoint. If this property is set to

     * <code>true</code>, the service client indicates that it wants the session

     * to be maintained. If set to <code>false</code>, the session is not maintained.

     * The default value for this property is <code>false</code>.

     * <p>Type: <code>java.lang.Boolean</code>

     **/

    public static final String SESSION_MAINTAIN_PROPERTY =

            "javax.xml.ws.session.maintain";

    /**

     * Standard property for SOAPAction. This boolean property

     * indicates whether or not the value of the

     * <code>javax.xml.ws.soap.http.soapaction.uri</code> property

     * is used for the value of the SOAPAction. The

     * default value of this property is <code>false</code> indicating

     * that the

     * <code>javax.xml.ws.soap.http.soapaction.uri</code> property

     * is not used for the value of the SOAPAction, however,

     * if WS-Addressing is enabled, the default value is

     * <code>true</code>.

     *

     * <p>Type: <code>java.lang.Boolean</code>

     **/

    public static final String SOAPACTION_USE_PROPERTY =

            "javax.xml.ws.soap.http.soapaction.use";

    /**

     * Standard property for SOAPAction. Indicates the SOAPAction

     * URI if the <code>javax.xml.ws.soap.http.soapaction.use</code>

     * property is set to <code>true</code>. If WS-Addressing

     * is enabled, this value will also be used for the value of the

     * WS-Addressing Action header.  If this property is not set,

     * the default SOAPAction and WS-Addressing Action will be sent.

     *

     * <p>Type: <code>java.lang.String</code>

     **/

    public static final String SOAPACTION_URI_PROPERTY =

            "javax.xml.ws.soap.http.soapaction.uri";

    /**

     * Get the context that is used to initialize the message context

     * for request messages.

     *

     * Modifications to the request context do not affect the message context of

     * either synchronous or asynchronous operations that have already been

     * started.

     *

     * @return The context that is used in processing request messages.

     **/

    Map<String, Object> getRequestContext();

    /**

     * Get the context that resulted from processing a response message.

     *

     * The returned context is for the most recently completed synchronous

     * operation. Subsequent synchronous operation invocations overwrite the

     * response context. Asynchronous operations return their response context

     * via the Response interface.

     *

     * @return The context that resulted from processing the latest

     * response messages.

     **/

    Map<String, Object> getResponseContext();

    /**

     * Get the Binding for this binding provider.

     *

     * @return The Binding for this binding provider.

     **/

    Binding getBinding();

    /**

     * Returns the <code>EndpointReference</code> associated with

     * this <code>BindingProvider</code> instance.

     * <p>

     * If the Binding for this <code>bindingProvider</code> is

     * either SOAP1.1/HTTP or SOAP1.2/HTTP, then a

     * <code>W3CEndpointReference</code> MUST be returned.

     *

     * @return EndpointReference of the target endpoint associated with this

     * <code>BindingProvider</code> instance.

     *

     * @throws java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException If this

     * <code>BindingProvider</code> uses the XML/HTTP binding.

     *

     * @see W3CEndpointReference

     *

     * @since JAX-WS 2.1

     */

    public EndpointReference getEndpointReference();

    /**

     * Returns the <code>EndpointReference</code> associated with

     * this <code>BindingProvider</code> instance.  The instance

     * returned will be of type <code>clazz</code>.

     *

     * @param clazz Specifies the type of <code>EndpointReference</code>

     * that MUST be returned.

     * @return EndpointReference of the target endpoint associated with this

     * <code>BindingProvider</code> instance. MUST be of type

     * <code>clazz</code>.

     * @throws WebServiceException If the Class <code>clazz</code>

     * is not supported by this implementation.

     * @throws java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException If this

     * <code>BindingProvider</code> uses the XML/HTTP binding.

     *

     * @since JAX-WS 2.1

     */

    public <T extends EndpointReference> T getEndpointReference(Class<T> clazz);

}