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19 package org.apache.myfaces.spi;
20
21 import java.util.List;
22
23 /**
24 * This class provides an interface to override SPI handling done by
25 * MyFaces.
26 *
27 * This is useful on environments like in OSGi, because it allows to
28 * put custom code to find SPI interfaces under META-INF/services/
29 *
30 * @author Leonardo Uribe
31 * @since 2.0.3
32 *
33 */
34 public abstract class ServiceProviderFinder
35 {
36
37 /**
38 * Gets the list of classes bound to the spiClass key, looking
39 * for entries under META-INF/services/[spiClass]
40 *
41 * @param spiClass
42 * @return
43 */
44 public abstract List<String> getServiceProviderList(String spiClass);
45
46 }