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This Jackrabbit subproject is an object/JCR persistence and query service. This tools lets you to persist java objects into a JCR compliant repository - including association, inheritance, polymorphism, composition, and the Java collections framework. Furthermore, this jcr-mapping allows you to express queries in Java-based Criteria, as well as in JCR query language. It offers also features like version support and object locking.

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package org.apache.jackrabbit.ocm.mapper;

import org.apache.jackrabbit.ocm.mapper.impl.AbstractMapperImpl;
import org.apache.jackrabbit.ocm.mapper.model.MappingDescriptor;

public interface DescriptorReader {

	/**
	 * Load all class descriptors found in an classdescriptor definition.
	 * A classdescriptor definition can be a xml config file or annotations
	 * or another kind of resource which contain the classdescriptors
	 *
	 * DescriptorReader is an abstraction used to maximize reusability in {@link AbstractMapperImpl}
	 *
	 * @return a {@link MappingDescriptor} wich will contains a collection of classdescriptors
	 *
	 */
	public abstract MappingDescriptor loadClassDescriptors();

}