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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 javax.servlet.http;
+
+import java.util.EventListener;
+
+/**
+ * Causes an object to be notified when it is bound to or unbound from a
+ * session. The object is notified by an {@link HttpSessionBindingEvent} object.
+ * This may be as a result of a servlet programmer explicitly unbinding an
+ * attribute from a session, due to a session being invalidated, or due to a
+ * session timing out.
+ *
+ * @see HttpSession
+ * @see HttpSessionBindingEvent
+ */
+public interface HttpSessionBindingListener extends EventListener {
+
+ /**
+ * Notifies the object that it is being bound to a session and identifies
+ * the session.
+ *
+ * @param event
+ * the event that identifies the session
+ * @see #valueUnbound
+ */
+ public void valueBound(HttpSessionBindingEvent event);
+
+ /**
+ * Notifies the object that it is being unbound from a session and
+ * identifies the session.
+ *
+ * @param event
+ * the event that identifies the session
+ * @see #valueBound
+ */
+ public void valueUnbound(HttpSessionBindingEvent event);
+}