/*
* Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
* SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
*/
package javax.xml.ws;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.Future;
/** The <code>Response</code> interface provides methods used to obtain the
* payload and context of a message sent in response to an operation
* invocation.
*
* <p>For asynchronous operation invocations it provides additional methods
* to check the status of the request. The <code>get(...)</code> methods may
* throw the standard
* set of exceptions and their cause may be a RemoteException or a
* WebServiceException that represents the error that occured during the
* asynchronous method invocation.</p>
*
* @since JAX-WS 2.0
**/
public interface Response<T> extends Future<T> {
/** Gets the contained response context.
*
* @return The contained response context. May be <code>null</code> if a
* response is not yet available.
*
**/
Map<String,Object> getContext();
}