BaseJPAAnnotationProcessor.java

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 * Copyright 2005 Werner Guttmann
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package org.castor.jdo.jpa.processors;

import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;

import org.castor.core.annotationprocessing.TargetAwareAnnotationProcessor;
import org.castor.core.nature.BaseNature;

/**
 * Basic abstract {@link TargetAwareAnnotationProcessor} that does not allow
 * processing without a target (returns false).
 * 
 * @author Peter Schmidt
 * @see AnnotationProcessor#processAnnotation(BaseNature, Annotation)
 */
public abstract class BaseJPAAnnotationProcessor implements
        TargetAwareAnnotationProcessor {

    /**
     * Returns false - non target aware processing shall not be implemented in
     * JPA-Annotation processing.
     * 
     * {@inheritDoc}
     * 
     * @see org.castor.core.annotationprocessing.AnnotationProcessor#processAnnotation(BaseNature,
     *      Annotation)
     */
    public final <I extends BaseNature, A extends Annotation> boolean processAnnotation(
            final I info, final A annotation) {
        return false;
    }
}