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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: CollectionJoin.java 17038 2009-07-08 10:58:24Z epbernard $
// EJB3 Specification Copyright 2004-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
package javax.persistence.criteria;

import java.util.Collection;
import javax.persistence.metamodel.CollectionAttribute;

/**
 * The CollectionJoin interface is the type of the result of
 * joining to a collection over an association or element
 * collection that has been specified as a java.util.Collection.
 *
 * @param  The source type of the join
 * @param  The element type of the target Collection
 */
public interface CollectionJoin
		extends PluralJoin, E> {

	/**
	 * Return the metamodel representation for the collection
	 * attribute.
	 *
	 * @return metamodel type representing the Collection that is
	 *         the target of the join
	 */
	CollectionAttribute getModel();
}