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The jBATIS persistence framework will help you to significantly reduce the amount of Java code that you normally need to access a relational database. iBATIS simply maps JavaBeans to SQL statements using a very simple XML descriptor.

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package org.ibatis.persist.criteria;

/**
 * Represents a bound type, usually an entity that appears in the from clause.
 *
 * @param 
 *            the source type
 * @param 
 *            the target type
 *
 * @since iBatis Persistence 1.0
 */
public interface From {

    /**
     * Create an inner join to the specified attribute.
     * 
     * @param attribute
     *            the attribute for the target of the join
     * @return the resulting join
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException
     *             if attribute of the given name does not exist
     */
    Join join(From from);

    /**
     * Create a join to the specified attribute using the given join type.
     * 
     * @param attribute
     *            the attribute for the target of the join
     * @param jt
     *            join type
     * @return the resulting join
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException
     *             if attribute of the given name does not exist
     */
    Join join(From from, JoinType jt);
}