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/**
 *         PlasmaSDO™ License
 * 
 * This is a community release of PlasmaSDO™, a dual-license 
 * Service Data Object (SDO) 2.1 implementation. 
 * This particular copy of the software is released under the 
 * version 2 of the GNU General Public License. PlasmaSDO™ was developed by 
 * TerraMeta Software, Inc.
 * 
 * Copyright (c) 2013, TerraMeta Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
 * 
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package org.plasma.sdo.repository;

import java.util.List;

import org.plasma.sdo.Alias;
import org.plasma.sdo.Derivation;

/**
 * 
 * @author Scott Cinnamond
 * @since 1.2.4
 */public interface Classifier extends Element {

	/**
	 * Returns the (UML) artifact URI associated with the classifier, if available, or
	 * null e.g. if the classifier was not loaded as part of an artifact.    
	 * @return the (UML) artifact URI associated with the classifier, if available, or
	 * null e.g. if the classifier was not loaded as part of an artifact.
	 */
	String getArtifactNamespaceURI();

	String getPackageName();

	String getPackagePhysicalName();

	Alias findPackageAlias();

	Derivation findDerivation();

	List getComments();

	Visibility getVisibility();

	boolean isAbstract();

	boolean isDataType();

	List getGeneralization();

	List getSpecializations();

	/**
	 * Traverses the given classifier's package ancestry looking for
	 * an SDO namespace stereotype, and if found, returns the URI.
	 * @param classifier the classifier
	 * @return the SDO namespace URI or null if not found.
	 * @throws RepositoryException if the URI is not found
	 */
	String getNamespaceURI();

	String getPhysicalName();

	String getLocalName();

	String getBusinessName();

	Alias findAlias();

	Classifier getDerivationSupplier();


}