1 /* 2 * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation. 3 * 4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 7 * 8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 9 * 10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 14 * limitations under the License. 15 */ 16 package javax.xml.rpc.encoding; 17 18 import java.util.Iterator; 19 20 /** 21 * The javax.xml.rpc.encoding.SerializerFactory is a factory of 22 * the serializers. A SerializerFactory is registered with a 23 * TypeMapping object as part of the TypeMappingRegistry. 24 * 25 * @version 1.0 26 */ 27 public interface SerializerFactory extends java.io.Serializable { 28 29 /** 30 * Returns a Serializer for the specified XML processing mechanism type. 31 * 32 * @param mechanismType - XML processing mechanism type [TBD: definition 33 * of valid constants] 34 * 35 * @return a <code>Serializer</code> for the specified XML processing 36 * mechanism type 37 * 38 * @throws javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException 39 * if <code>SerializerFactory</code> does not support the 40 * specified XML processing mechanism 41 * @throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException 42 * if an invalid mechanism type is specified 43 */ 44 public Serializer getSerializerAs(String mechanismType); 45 46 /** 47 * Returns an Iterator over all XML processing mechanism types supported by 48 * this <code>SerializerFactory</code>. 49 * 50 * @return an Iterator over the mechanism types (<Code>String</code>s?) 51 */ 52 public Iterator getSupportedMechanismTypes(); 53 } 54 55