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* Contributors:
* 03/24/2011-2.3 Guy Pelletier
* - 337323: Multi-tenant with shared schema support (part 1)
* 09/09/2011-2.3.1 Guy Pelletier
* - 356197: Add new VPD type to MultitenantType
* 14/05/2012-2.4 Guy Pelletier
* - 376603: Provide for table per tenant support for multitenant applications
******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.persistence.annotations;
/**
* An enum that is used within the Multitenant annotation.
*
* @see org.eclipse.persistence.annotations.Multitenant
* @author Guy Pelletier
* @since EclipseLink 2.3
*/
public enum MultitenantType {
/**
* Specifies that table(s) the entity maps to includes rows for multiple
* tenants. The tenant discriminator column(s) are used with application
* context values to limit what a persistence context can access.
*/
SINGLE_TABLE,
/**
* Specifies that the DB will handle the tenant filtering on all SELECT,
* UPDATE and DELETE queries. Using this type assumes that the platform
* used with your persistence unit does indeed support VPD.
*
* @since 2.3.1
*/
VPD,
/**
* Specifies that different tables are used for each tenant and used in
* conjunction with the tenant table discriminator which describes how the
* tables are uniquely identified, that is, using a suffix/prefix or a
* separate schema.
*
* @since 2.4
*/
TABLE_PER_TENANT
}