001 /** 002 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 003 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 004 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 005 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 006 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 007 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 008 * 009 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 010 * 011 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 012 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 013 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 014 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 015 * limitations under the License. 016 */ 017 package org.apache.camel.spi; 018 019 import org.apache.camel.Processor; 020 021 /** 022 * Represents a <a href="http://camel.apache.org/binding.html">Binding</a> or contract 023 * which can be applied to an Endpoint; such as ensuring that a particular 024 * <a href="http://camel.apache.org/data-format.html">Data Format</a> is used on messages in and out of an endpoint. 025 */ 026 public interface Binding { 027 028 /** 029 * Returns a new {@link Processor} which is used by a producer on an endpoint to implement 030 * the producer side binding before the message is sent to the underlying endpoint. 031 */ 032 Processor createProduceProcessor(); 033 034 /** 035 * Returns a new {@link Processor} which is used by a consumer on an endpoint to process the 036 * message with the binding before its passed to the endpoint consumer producer. 037 */ 038 Processor createConsumeProcessor(); 039 }