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DDMSence (pronounced "dee-dee-em-Essence") is the only open-source Java library that fully supports the DoD Discovery Metadata Specification (DDMS).

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/* Copyright 2010 - 2013 by Brian Uri!
   
   This file is part of DDMSence.
   
   This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of version 3.0 of the GNU Lesser General Public 
   License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
   
   This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 
   GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
   
   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 
   License along with DDMSence. If not, see .

   You can contact the author at [email protected]. The DDMSence
   home page is located at http://ddmsence.urizone.net/
 */
package buri.ddmsence.ddms;

import java.util.List;

import buri.ddmsence.ddms.extensible.ExtensibleAttributes;

/**
 * Identifying interface for an entity element (person, organization, service, unknown) which may be used to fulfill
 * a producer role (creator, contributor, pointOfContact, publisher) or a tasking role (addressee, requesterInfo,
 * recordKeeper).
 * 
 * @author Brian Uri!
 * @since 2.0.0
 */
public interface IRoleEntity extends IDDMSComponent {

	/**
	 * Accessor for the names of the entity (1 to many).
	 * 
	 * @return unmodifiable List
	 */
	public List getNames();

	/**
	 * Accessor for the phone numbers of the entity (0 to many).
	 * 
	 * @return unmodifiable List
	 */
	public List getPhones();

	/**
	 * Accessor for the emails of the entity (0 to many).
	 * 
	 * @return unmodifiable List
	 */
	public List getEmails();

	/**
	 * Accessor for any extensible attributes on the producer
	 * 
	 * @return the attributes
	 */
	public ExtensibleAttributes getExtensibleAttributes();
}