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+#ifndef QPID_MESSAGING_PROTOCOLREGISTRY_H
+#define QPID_MESSAGING_PROTOCOLREGISTRY_H
+
+/*
+ *
+ * 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.
+ *
+ */
+#include "qpid/types/Variant.h"
+
+namespace qpid {
+namespace messaging {
+class ConnectionImpl;
+/**
+ * Registry for different implementations of the messaging API e.g AMQP 1.0
+ */
+class ProtocolRegistry
+{
+  public:
+    typedef ConnectionImpl* Factory(const std::string& url, const qpid::types::Variant::Map& options);
+    static ConnectionImpl* create(const std::string& url, const qpid::types::Variant::Map& options);
+    static void add(const std::string& name, Factory* factory);
+  private:
+};
+}} // namespace qpid::messaging
+
+#endif  /*!QPID_MESSAGING_PROTOCOLREGISTRY_H*/