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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.provider;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.List;
+
+
+/**
+ * An extension point for provider factories. Holds all of the provider
+ * factories from loaded extension points. Allows a provider factory
+ * to be located based on a given model type. Hence the runtime can 
+ * generate runtime artifacts from the in memory assembly model. 
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ * @tuscany.spi.extension.asclient
+ */
+public interface ProviderFactoryExtensionPoint {
+
+
+    /**
+     * Add a provider factory.
+     * 
+     * @param providerFactory The provider factory
+     */
+    void addProviderFactory(ProviderFactory providerFactory);
+
+    /**
+     * Remove a provider factory.
+     * 
+     * @param providerFactory The provider factory
+     */
+    void removeProviderFactory(ProviderFactory providerFactory);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the provider factory associated with the given model type.
+     * @param modelType A model type
+     * @return The provider factory associated with the given model type
+     */
+    ProviderFactory getProviderFactory(Class<?> modelType);
+    
+    /**
+     * Get a list of registered PolicyProviderFactory
+     * @return a list of registered PolicyProviderFactory
+     */
+    List<PolicyProviderFactory> getPolicyProviderFactories();
+    
+    /**
+     * Get a collection of provider factories by the factory type 
+     * @param <P>
+     * @param factoryType The factory type such as BindingProviderFactory
+     * @return a collection of provider factories of the factory type
+     */
+    <P extends ProviderFactory> Collection<P> getProviderFactories(Class<P> factoryType);
+
+    
+}