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## java.beans.beancontext
Interface BeanContextServiceProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:
  BeanContextServicesSupport.BCSSProxyServiceProvider

public interface BeanContextServiceProvider

One of the primary functions of a BeanContext is to act a as rendezvous between JavaBeans, and BeanContextServiceProviders.

A JavaBean nested within a BeanContext, may ask that BeanContext to provide an instance of a "service", based upon a reference to a Java Class object that represents that service.

If such a service has been registered with the context, or one of its nesting context's, in the case where a context delegate to its context to satisfy a service request, then the BeanContextServiceProvider associated with the service is asked to provide an instance of that service.

The ServcieProvider may always return the same instance, or it may construct a new instance for each request.

Method Summary
`Iterator` | `getCurrentServiceSelectors(BeanContextServices bcs, Class serviceClass)` Invoked by `BeanContextServices`, this method gets the current service selectors for the specified service.
`Object` | `getService(BeanContextServices bcs, Object requestor, Class serviceClass, Object serviceSelector)` Invoked by `BeanContextServices`, this method requests an instance of a service from this `BeanContextServiceProvider`.
`void` | `releaseService(BeanContextServices bcs, Object requestor, Object service)` Invoked by `BeanContextServices`, this method releases a nested `BeanContextChild`'s (or any arbitrary object associated with a `BeanContextChild`) reference to the specified service.

Method Detail

### getService

    public Object getService(BeanContextServices bcs,
                             Object requestor,
                             Class serviceClass,
                             Object serviceSelector)

  Invoked by `BeanContextServices`, this method requests an instance of a service from this `BeanContextServiceProvider`.

  Parameters:
    `bcs` - The `BeanContextServices` associated with this particular request. This parameter enables the `BeanContextServiceProvider` to distinguish service requests from multiple sources.
    `requestor` - The object requesting the service
    `serviceClass` - The service requested
    `serviceSelector` - the service dependent parameter for a particular service, or `null` if not applicable.
  Returns:
    a reference to the requested service

### releaseService

    public void releaseService(BeanContextServices bcs,
                               Object requestor,
                               Object service)

  Invoked by `BeanContextServices`, this method releases a nested `BeanContextChild`'s (or any arbitrary object associated with a `BeanContextChild`) reference to the specified service.

  Parameters:
    `bcs` - the `BeanContextServices` associated with this particular release request
    `requestor` - the object requesting the service to be released
    `service` - the service that is to be released

### getCurrentServiceSelectors

    public Iterator getCurrentServiceSelectors(BeanContextServices bcs,
                                               Class serviceClass)

  Invoked by `BeanContextServices`, this method gets the current service selectors for the specified service. A service selector is a service specific parameter, typical examples of which could include: a parameter to a constructor for the service implementation class, a value for a particular service's property, or a key into a map of existing implementations.

  Parameters:
    `bcs` - the `BeanContextServices` for this request
  Returns:
    the current service selectors for the specified serviceClass

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