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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.node;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.sca.node.configuration.NodeConfiguration;
+
+
+
+
+/**
+ * Represents an SCA processing node.
+ * A node is loaded with an SCA composites. It can start and stop that composite.
+ *
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public interface Node extends Client {
+    String DEFAULT_DOMAIN_URI = NodeConfiguration.DEFAULT_DOMAIN_URI;
+    String DEFAULT_NODE_URI = NodeConfiguration.DEFAULT_NODE_URI;
+    /**
+     * Start the composite loaded in the node.
+     * @return Return the node itself so that we can call NodeFactory.newInstance().createNode(...).start()
+     */
+    Node start();
+
+    /**
+     * Stop the composite loaded in the node.
+     */
+    void stop();
+
+    /**
+     * Destroy the node.
+     */
+    void destroy();
+
+}