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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.databinding;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.contribution.resolver.ModelResolver;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.DataType;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.Interface;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.interfacedef.util.TypeInfo;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.xsd.XSDFactory;
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.xsd.XSDefinition;
+
+/**
+ * XML and schema helper for Java types
+ * @tuscany.spi.extension.inheritfrom
+ */
+public interface XMLTypeHelper {
+
+    // FIXME: This method seems to require the XMLHelper instance to be stateful
+    /**
+     * Convert a Java type into XML type information 
+     * @param javaType the physical Java class
+     * @param logical the logical type information
+     * @return the XML type information
+     */
+    TypeInfo getTypeInfo(Class javaType, Object logical);
+
+    /**
+     * Get schema definitions for the Java types known to this helper
+     * @return A list of schema definitions
+     */
+    // List<XSDefinition> getSchemaDefinitions(XSDFactory factory, ModelResolver resolver);
+    
+    /**
+     * Get a list of XML schemas for the given data types
+     * @param factory
+     * @param resolver
+     * @param dataTypes
+     * @return
+     */
+    List<XSDefinition> getSchemaDefinitions(XSDFactory factory, ModelResolver resolver, List<DataType> dataTypes);
+    /**
+     * Get a list of XML schemas for the given interface
+     * @param factory
+     * @param resolver
+     * @param intf
+     * @return
+     */
+    List<XSDefinition> getSchemaDefinitions(XSDFactory factory, ModelResolver resolver, Interface intf);
+
+}