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+/*
+ * (c) Copyright BEA Systems, Inc., Cape Clear Software, International Business Machines Corp, Interface21, IONA Technologies,
+ * Oracle, Primeton Technologies, Progress Software, Red Hat, Rogue Wave Software, SAP AG., Siemens AG., Software AG., Sybase
+ * Inc., TIBCO Software Inc., 2005, 2007. All rights reserved.
+ * 
+ * see http://www.osoa.org/display/Main/Service+Component+Architecture+Specifications
+ */
+package org.osoa.sca.annotations;
+
+import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE;
+import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+/**
+ * Annotation that can be applied to annotations that describe SCA intents.
+ * Adding this annotation allows SCA runtimes to automatically detect user-defined intents.
+ * <p/>
+ * Applications must specify a value, a pairing of targetNamespace and localPort, or both.
+ * If both value and pairing are supplied they must define the name qualified name.
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+@Target({ANNOTATION_TYPE})
+@Retention(RUNTIME)
+public @interface Intent {
+    /**
+     * The qualified name of the intent, in the form defined by {@link javax.xml.namespace.QName#toString}.
+     *
+     * @return the qualified name of the intent
+     */
+    String value() default "";
+
+    /**
+     * The XML namespace for the intent.
+     *
+     * @return the XML namespace for the intent
+     */
+    String targetNamespace() default "";
+
+    /**
+     * The name of the intent within its namespace.
+     *
+     * @return name of the intent within its namespace
+     */
+    String localPart() default "";
+}