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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.invocation;
+
+/**
+ * TUSCANY-3786
+ * 
+ * The response side of an Interface to describe an invocation where 
+ * the request processing can be performed independently of the 
+ * response processing. 
+ */
+public interface InvokerAsyncResponse {
+    
+    /**
+     * Process the response message and pass it down the chain
+     *
+     * @param msg The request Message
+     * @return the processed message
+     * 
+     */
+    void invokeAsyncResponse(Message msg);    
+    
+    /**
+     * Process a response message. Provided so that the synchronous
+     * and asynchronous patterns can re-use the response message
+     * processing 
+     *
+     * @param msg The request Message
+     * @return the processed message
+     * 
+     */
+    Message processResponse(Message msg);    
+
+}