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014
015package org.apache.tapestry5;
016
017import java.lang.reflect.Method;
018import java.lang.reflect.Type;
019
020import org.apache.tapestry5.services.BindingFactory;
021
022/**
023 * Extension to {@link Binding} that adds a method to access the generic property type.
024 * {@link BindingFactory} instances should ideally return Binding2 objects, not Binding.
025 * This is only primarily of interest to {@link ComponentResources}.
026 * 
027 * @since 5.4
028 */
029public interface Binding2 extends Binding
030{
031    /**
032     * Returns the generic type of the binding
033     * 
034     * @see Method#getGenericReturnType()
035     * @see java.lang.reflect.Field#getGenericType()
036     */
037    Type getBindingGenericType();
038}