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package org.apache.axis2.databinding;

import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader;
import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException;

/*
 * ADBBean - Axis Data Binding Bean. This will be implemented by all the beans that are being generated by
 * Axis2 data binding framework
 */

public interface ADBBean {
    /**
     * Serializes an ADBBean. Gets the pull parser and fetches the XML pull events to represent the
     * bean.
     *
     * @param adbBeanQName the name of the element to be generated for this ADBBean.
     * @return Returns a pull parser for this ADBBean.
     */
    public XMLStreamReader getPullParser(QName adbBeanQName) throws XMLStreamException;

    /**
     * There will be a self factory in every generated data bound class XXX:
     * public static XXX read (XMLStreamReader);
     */
}