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/*
* Copyright (c) 2008, 2009 Sun Microsystems. All rights reserved.
*
* This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
* terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 and Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0
* which accompanies this distribution.
* The Eclipse Public License is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
* and the Eclipse Distribution License is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php.
*
* Contributors:
* Linda DeMichiel - Java Persistence 2.0 - Version 2.0 (October 1, 2009)
* Specification available from http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=317
*/
// $Id: PersistenceProviderResolver.java 20957 2011-06-13 09:58:51Z stliu $
package javax.persistence.spi;
import java.util.List;
/**
* Determine the list of persistence providers available in the
* runtime environment.
*
* Implementations must be thread-safe.
*
*
Note that the getPersistenceProviders
method can potentially
* be called many times: it is recommended that the implementation
* of this method make use of caching.
*
* @see PersistenceProvider
* @since Java Persistence 2.0
*/
public interface PersistenceProviderResolver {
/**
* Returns a list of the PersistenceProvider
implementations
* available in the runtime environment.
*
* @return list of the persistence providers available
* in the environment
*/
List getPersistenceProviders();
/**
* Clear cache of providers.
*/
void clearCachedProviders();
}