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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
 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
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 * 
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package org.apache.tuscany.sca.invocation;

/**
 * An invoker or interceptor can optionally implement this interface to indicate if they can 
 * enforce the pass-by-value semantics for an operation on remotable interfaces.
 * 
 * @version $Rev$ $Date$
 */
public interface DataExchangeSemantics {
    /**
     * Indicate if the data can be passed in by reference as they won't be mutated.
     * @return true if pass-by-reference is allowed
     */
    boolean allowsPassByReference();
}