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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.catalina;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import javax.servlet.ServletException;
+import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;
+import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;
+
+public interface AsyncDispatcher {
+
+    /**
+     * Perform an asynchronous dispatch. The method does not check if the
+     * request is in an appropriate state for this; it is the caller's
+     * responsibility to check this.
+     * @param request  The request object to pass to the dispatch target
+     * @param response The response object to pass to the dispatch target
+     * @throws ServletException if thrown by the dispatch target
+     * @throws IOException      if an I/O error occurs while processing the
+     *                          dispatch
+     */
+    public void dispatch(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response)
+            throws ServletException, IOException;
+}