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package org.apache.maven.api.spi;

import org.apache.maven.api.Language;
import org.apache.maven.api.annotations.Consumer;
import org.apache.maven.api.annotations.Experimental;
import org.apache.maven.api.di.Named;

/**
 * Service provider interface for registering custom {@link Language} implementations.
 * <p>
 * This interface allows plugins and extensions to define and register additional programming languages
 * beyond the standard ones provided by Maven. Implementations of this interface will be discovered
 * through the Java ServiceLoader mechanism and their provided languages will be available
 * throughout the Maven build process.
 * <p>
 * Example usage:
 * <pre>
 * public class CustomLanguageProvider implements LanguageProvider {
 *     public Collection&lt;Language&gt; provides() {
 *         return Collections.singleton(language("kotlin"));
 *     }
 * }
 * </pre>
 *
 * @see org.apache.maven.api.Language
 * @see org.apache.maven.api.spi.ExtensibleEnumProvider
 * @since 4.0.0
 */
@Experimental
@Consumer
@Named
public interface LanguageProvider extends ExtensibleEnumProvider<Language> {}
