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Clean-room definition of JPA APIs intended for use in developing Hibernate JPA implementation. See README.md for details

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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2008, 2009, 2011 Oracle, Inc. 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.
 */
package javax.persistence.criteria;

import javax.persistence.metamodel.EntityType;

/**
 * A root type in the from clause.
 * Query roots always reference entities.
 *
 * @param  the entity type referenced by the root
 * @since Java Persistence 2.0
 */
public interface Root extends From {

	/**
	 * Return the metamodel entity corresponding to the root.
	 *
	 * @return metamodel entity corresponding to the root
	 */
	EntityType getModel();
}