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Hibernate developmental JSR 317 (Java Persistence API 2.0) contracts. Used to allow incremental implementation of features on the way to full JPA 2.0 support.

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// $Id: Entity.java 16130 2009-03-10 14:28:07Z hardy.ferentschik $
// EJB3 Specification Copyright 2004-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
package javax.persistence;

import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.TYPE;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;

/**
 * Specifies that the class is an entity. This annotation is applied to the entity class.
 *
 * @author Emmanuel Bernard
 */
@Target(TYPE) @Retention(RUNTIME)
public @interface Entity {
	/**
	 * The name of an entity. Defaults to the unqualified name of the entity class.
	 * This name is used to refer to the entity in queries. The name must not be a
	 * reserved literal in the Java Persistence query language.
	 */
	String name() default "";
}