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/*
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 * 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
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 * 
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 */

package org.apache.tuscany.sca.extensibility;

import java.util.Set;

/**
 * A SPI that allows different implementations of discovering service declarations
 */
public interface ServiceDiscoverer {
    /**
     * Discover the service descriptors by name
     * @param serviceName The name of the service
     * @param firstOnly A flag to indicate if only the first instance is to be discovered
     *  
     * @return A set of service descriptors
     */
    Set<ServiceDeclaration> discover(String serviceName, boolean firstOnly);

}