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Provides a simple model for integrating Ehcache in a Spring project via annotations.

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/**
 * Copyright 2010 Nicholas Blair, Eric Dalquist
 *
 * Licensed 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.
 */

package com.googlecode.ehcache.annotations.key;

/**
 * Utility for determinging if an object implements specific methods. The default implementations on
 * {@link Object} are ignored.
 * 
 * @author Eric Dalquist
 * @version $Revision: 427 $
 */
public interface ReflectionHelper {

    /**
     * Checks if the object implements hashCode
     * @param element will never be null
     */
    public boolean implementsHashCode(Object element);

    /**
     * Checks if the object implements equals
     * @param element will never be null
     */
    public boolean implementsEquals(Object element);

    /**
     * Checks if the object implements equals
     * @param element will never be null
     */
    public boolean implementsToString(Object element);

}