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* Copyright 2004,2005 The Apache Software Foundation.
*
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package org.apache.axis2.clustering;
/**
* A representation of a membership scheme such as "multicast based" or "well-known address (WKA)
* based" schemes. This is directly related to the membership discovery mechanism.
*/
public interface MembershipScheme {
/**
* Initialize this membership scheme
*
* @throws ClusteringFault If an error occurs while initializing
*/
void init() throws ClusteringFault;
/**
* JOIN the group
*
* @throws ClusteringFault If an error occurs while joining the group
*/
void joinGroup() throws ClusteringFault;
}