/**
* Copyright (c) 2011, SOCIETIES Consortium (WATERFORD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (TSSG), HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY (HWU), SOLUTA.NET
* (SN), GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTRE (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.) (DLR), Zavod za varnostne tehnologije
* informacijske družbe in elektronsko poslovanje (SETCCE), INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS (ICCS), LAKE
* COMMUNICATIONS (LAKE), INTEL PERFORMANCE LEARNING SOLUTIONS LTD (INTEL), PORTUGAL TELECOM INOVAÇÃO, SA (PTIN), IBM Corp.,
* INSTITUT TELECOM (ITSUD), AMITEC DIACHYTI EFYIA PLIROFORIKI KAI EPIKINONIES ETERIA PERIORISMENIS EFTHINIS (AMITEC), TELECOM
* ITALIA S.p.a.(TI), TRIALOG (TRIALOG), Stiftelsen SINTEF (SINTEF), NEC EUROPE LTD (NEC))
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package org.societies.context.api.user.location;
import java.util.Collection;
/**
*
* This interface represents a zone in the system. It contains some metadata attributes as description, name, type
* and in addition the zone Tags and a user personal tag.
* The tagging concept is similar concept to the tagging in Gmail. A zone can have multiple tags such as
* IBM zone, IBM Tel-Aviv zone, IBM office or Office number 10. Nevertheless it can have only one
* personal tag, which is the personal tag the user gave to the zone (e.g. "Dan's room" or "My room").
*
* @author guyf@il.ibm.com
*
*/
public interface IZone {
IZoneId getId();
void setId(IZoneId zoneId);
String getDescription();
void setDescription(String description);
void setPersonalTag(ITag personalTag);
ITag getPersonalTag();
void setTags(Collection<ITag>tags);
Collection<ITag> getTags();
void setName(String name);
String getName();
void setType(String type);
String getType();
}