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014
015package org.apache.tapestry.services;
016
017import java.io.IOException;
018
019import org.apache.tapestry.web.WebRequest;
020import org.apache.tapestry.web.WebResponse;
021
022/**
023 * Interface for objects that can handle web requests; few classes implement this, instead they
024 * implement {@link org.apache.tapestry.services.WebRequestServicerFilter} and plug into the
025 * tapestry.request.WebRequestServicerPipeline configuration point.
026 * 
027 * @author Howard M. Lewis Ship
028 * @since 4.0
029 */
030public interface WebRequestServicer
031{
032    public void service(WebRequest request, WebResponse response) throws IOException;
033}