001    // $Header: /cvsroot/deegree/src/org/deegree/ogcwebservices/OGCWebService.java,v
002    // 1.7 2004/06/23 13:37:40 mschneider Exp $
003    /*----------------    FILE HEADER  ------------------------------------------
004    
005     This file is part of deegree.
006     Copyright (C) 2001 by:
007     EXSE, Department of Geography, University of Bonn
008     http://www.giub.uni-bonn.de/exse/
009     lat/lon Fitzke/Fretter/Poth GbR
010     http://www.lat-lon.de
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025    
026     Contact:
027    
028     Andreas Poth
029     lat/lon Fitzke/Fretter/Poth GbR
030     Meckenheimer Allee 176
031     53115 Bonn
032     Germany
033     E-Mail: poth@lat-lon.de
034    
035     Jens Fitzke
036     Department of Geography
037     University of Bonn
038     Meckenheimer Allee 166
039     53115 Bonn
040     Germany
041     E-Mail: jens.fitzke@uni-bonn.de
042    
043    
044     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
045    package org.opengis.webservice;
046    
047    import org.opengis.webservice.WebServiceEvent;
048    import org.opengis.webservice.capability.Capabilities;
049    
050    
051    /**
052     * @author <a href="mailto:poth@lat-lon.de">Andreas Poth </a>
053     */
054    public interface WebService {
055        /**
056         * Returns the capabilities of a web service
057         */
058        Capabilities getCapabilities();
059    
060        /**
061         * Performs the handling of the passed WebServiceEvent directly and returns
062         * the result to the calling class/method
063         *
064         * @param request request (WMS, WCS, WFS, CSW, WFS-G) to perform
065         *
066         * @throws WebServiceException
067         */
068        Object doService(WebServiceRequest request) throws WebServiceException;
069    
070        /**
071         * Performs the handling of the passed WebServiceEvent in an new own Thread.
072         * The receiver of the response to the request must implement the
073         * WebServiceClient interface.
074         *
075         * @param event event containing request (WMS, WCS, WFS, CSW, WFS-G) to perform
076         *
077         * @throws WebServiceException
078         *
079         * @deprecated The WebServiceEvent class is marked as deprecated.
080         */
081        void doService(WebServiceEvent event) throws WebServiceException;
082    }