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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.metamodel;
/**
* Instances of the type Type
represent persistent object
* or attribute types.
*
* @param The type of the represented object or attribute
* @since Java Persistence 2.0
*/
public interface Type {
public static enum PersistenceType {
/**
* Entity
*/
ENTITY,
/**
* Embeddable class
*/
EMBEDDABLE,
/**
* Mapped superclass
*/
MAPPED_SUPERCLASS,
/**
* Basic type
*/
BASIC
}
/**
* Return the persistence type.
*
* @return persistence type
*/
PersistenceType getPersistenceType();
/**
* Return the represented Java type.
*
* @return Java type
*/
Class getJavaType();
}