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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others. 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
+ */
+
+package org.opendaylight.controller.protocol_plugin.openflow;
+
+import org.opendaylight.controller.sal.flowprogrammer.IPluginOutFlowProgrammerService;
+
+/**
+ * Interface which defines the methods exposed by the Flow Programmer Notifier.
+ * Their implementation relays the asynchronous messages received from the
+ * network nodes to the the SAL Flow Programmer Notifier Service on the proper
+ * container.
+ */
+public interface IFlowProgrammerNotifier extends
+ IPluginOutFlowProgrammerService {
+
+}