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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.binding.notification.encoding;
+
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader;
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamWriter;
+
+/**
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public interface EncodingRegistry {
+
+    /**
+     * Registers an en/de coder.
+     * 
+     * @param <E> Encoding object type.
+     * @param encodingClass Encoding object class.
+     * @param qname Qualified name of the root element of the encoded XML.
+     * @param enDeCoder Encoding object enDeCoder.
+     */
+    <E extends EncodingObject> void registerEnDeCoder(Class<E> encodingClass, QName qname, EnDeCoder<E> enDeCoder);
+
+    <E extends EncodingObject> void unregisterEnDeCoder(Class<E> encodingClass, QName qname);
+    
+    /**
+     * Encodes an object.
+     * 
+     * @param encodingObject Encoding object to be encoded.
+     * @param writer Writer to which encoded information is written.
+     */
+    void encode(EncodingObject encodingObject, XMLStreamWriter writer) throws EncodingException;
+
+    /**
+     * Decodes an XML stream to an encoding object.
+     * 
+     * @param reader Reader from which encoded information is read.
+     * @return Encoding object from the encoded stream.
+     */
+    EncodingObject decode(XMLStreamReader reader) throws EncodingException;
+}