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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.spi.marshaller;
+
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader;
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamWriter;
+
+import org.apache.tuscany.spi.model.ModelObject;
+
+/**
+ * A registry for model object marshallers.
+ * 
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public interface ModelMarshallerRegistry {
+
+    /**
+     * Registers a model object marshaller.
+     * 
+     * @param <MD> Model object type.
+     * @param modelClass Model obejct class.
+     * @param qname Qualified name of the root element of the marshalled XML.
+     * @param marshaller Model object marshaller.
+     */
+    <MD extends ModelObject> void registerMarshaller(Class<MD> modelClass, QName qname, ModelMarshaller<MD> marshaller);
+
+    /**
+     * Marshalls a model object.
+     * 
+     * @param modelObject Model object to be marshalled.
+     * @param writer Writer to which marshalled information is written.
+     */
+    void marshall(ModelObject modelObject, XMLStreamWriter writer) throws MarshallException;
+
+    /**
+     * Unmarshalls an XML stream to a model object.
+     * 
+     * @param reader Reader from which marshalled information is read.
+     * @return Model object from the marshalled stream.
+     */
+    ModelObject unmarshall(XMLStreamReader reader) throws MarshallException;
+
+}