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An aggregation of 1.4, 1.5 modules into an ROP client jar.

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package org.apache.cayenne.reflect;

import org.apache.cayenne.map.Embeddable;

/**
 * @since 3.0
 */
public interface EmbeddableDescriptor {

    /**
     * Creates a new instance of an embeddable class described by this object.
     */
    Object createObject(Object owner, String embeddedProperty);

    /**
     * Returns an embeddable class mapped by this descriptor.
     */
    Class getObjectClass();

    /**
     * Returns a metadata object for this descriptor.
     */
    Embeddable getEmbeddable();
}