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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2010, 2014 Sonatype, Inc.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ * Sonatype, Inc. - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.aether.collection;
+
+import org.eclipse.aether.graph.Dependency;
+
+/**
+ * Applies dependency management to the dependencies of a dependency node.
+ * <p>
+ * <strong>Note:</strong> Implementations must be stateless.
+ * <p>
+ * <em>Warning:</em> This hook is called from a hot spot and therefore implementations should pay attention to
+ * performance. Among others, implementations should provide a semantic {@link Object#equals(Object) equals()} method.
+ *
+ * @see org.eclipse.aether.RepositorySystemSession#getDependencyManager()
+ * @see org.eclipse.aether.RepositorySystem#collectDependencies(org.eclipse.aether.RepositorySystemSession,
+ * CollectRequest)
+ */
+public interface DependencyManager
+{
+
+ /**
+ * Applies dependency management to the specified dependency.
+ *
+ * @param dependency The dependency to manage, must not be {@code null}.
+ * @return The management update to apply to the dependency or {@code null} if the dependency is not managed at all.
+ */
+ DependencyManagement manageDependency( Dependency dependency );
+
+ /**
+ * Derives a dependency manager for the specified collection context. When calculating the child manager,
+ * implementors are strongly advised to simply return the current instance if nothing changed to help save memory.
+ *
+ * @param context The dependency collection context, must not be {@code null}.
+ * @return The dependency manager for the dependencies of the target node or {@code null} if dependency management
+ * should no longer be applied.
+ */
+ DependencyManager deriveChildManager( DependencyCollectionContext context );
+
+}