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Interface AlternativeSelector</H2>
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<DT><B>All Known Implementing Classes:</B> <DD><A HREF="../../../../../org/apache/cxf/ws/policy/selector/BaseAlternativeSelector.html" title="class in org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.selector">BaseAlternativeSelector</A>, <A HREF="../../../../../org/apache/cxf/ws/policy/selector/FirstAlternativeSelector.html" title="class in org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.selector">FirstAlternativeSelector</A>, <A HREF="../../../../../org/apache/cxf/ws/policy/selector/MaximalAlternativeSelector.html" title="class in org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.selector">MaximalAlternativeSelector</A>, <A HREF="../../../../../org/apache/cxf/ws/policy/selector/MinimalAlternativeSelector.html" title="class in org.apache.cxf.ws.policy.selector">MinimalAlternativeSelector</A></DD>
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<DT><PRE>public interface <B>AlternativeSelector</B></DL>
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Used by the Policy engine to select the Policy alternative to use.
By default, the Policy engine uses a "Minimal" policy alternative selector
that finds the alternative with the smallest Collection of Assertions to
assert.
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selectAlternative</H3>
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<A HREF="http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Collection.html" title="class or interface in java.util">Collection</A>&lt;org.apache.neethi.Assertion&gt; <B>selectAlternative</B>(org.apache.neethi.Policy&nbsp;policy,
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<DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><CODE>policy</CODE> - The full policy to consider<DD><CODE>engine</CODE> - The policy engine calling the selector<DD><CODE>assertor</CODE> - Additional asserter (such as the transport) that may be
able to handle some of the assertions<DD><CODE>request</CODE> - On the server out bound side, this will contain the alternatives
from the request that were successfully met by the request. The
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