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* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
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*
* Contributors:
* IBM Corporation - Initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jst.server.core;
import org.eclipse.wst.server.core.IModule;
/**
* Used to represent loose archive support in a J2EE module.
* <p>
* <b>Provisional API:</b> This class/interface is part of an interim API that is still under development and expected to
* change significantly before reaching stability. It is being made available at this early stage to solicit feedback
* from pioneering adopters on the understanding that any code that uses this API will almost certainly be broken
* (repeatedly) as the API evolves.
* </p>
* @since 1.0
*/
public interface ILooseArchiveSupport {
/**
* Return the loose archives that are contained within this enterprise
* application. The returned modules will all be adaptable to ILooseArchive.
*
* @return a possibly empty array of modules contained within this application
*/
public IModule[] getLooseArchives();
/**
* Returns the URI of the given loose archive within this
* enterprise application.
*
* @param archive a loose archive
* @return the URI of the given archive, or <code>null</code> if the URI could
* not be found
*/
public String getURI(ILooseArchive archive);
}