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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.implementation.spring.context;
+
+import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
+
+/**
+ * A utility to receive the parent Spring application context 
+ */
+public interface SpringApplicationContextAccessor {
+    /**
+     * Get the parent Spring application context for the hosting environment. This will be used as the parent 
+     * application context for implementation.spring components
+     * @return The parent application context
+     */
+    ApplicationContext getParentApplicationContext();
+
+    /**
+     * Set the root Spring application context. This is particually useful for Spring web integration where Spring
+     * creates WebApplicationContext and keeps it in the ServletContext
+     * @param parentApplicationContext The parent application context
+     */
+    void setParentApplicationContext(ApplicationContext parentApplicationContext);
+}