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package org.jboss.ejb.plugins.cmp.jdbc.metadata;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
/**
* This interface is used to identify a query that will be invoked in
* responce to the invocation of a finder method in a home interface or
* an ejbSelect method in a bean implementation class.
*
* @author <a href="mailto:dain@daingroup.com">Dain Sundstrom</a>
* @author <a href="sebastien.alborini@m4x.org">Sebastien Alborini</a>
* @author <a href="danch@nvisia.com">danch</a>
* @author <a href="on@ibis.odessa.ua">Oleg Nitz</a>
* @version $Revision: 81030 $
*/
public interface JDBCQueryMetaData {
/**
* Gets the method which invokes this query.
* @return the Method object which invokes this query
*/
public Method getMethod();
/**
* Is the result set of ejbSelect is mapped to local ejb objects or
* remote ejb objects.
* @return true, if the result set is to be local objects
*/
public boolean isResultTypeMappingLocal();
/**
* Gets the read ahead metadata for the query.
* @return the read ahead metadata for the query.
*/
public JDBCReadAheadMetaData getReadAhead();
/**
* @return EJBQL compiler implementation
*/
public Class getQLCompilerClass();
public boolean isLazyResultSetLoading();
}