MWNominative.java

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package org.eclipse.persistence.tools.workbench.mappingsmodel;

import org.eclipse.persistence.tools.workbench.utility.Model;


/**
 * Names are often used to uniquely identify a model object
 * within a set of objects of the same type. This interface
 * allows those objects to be handled by client code that
 * is only interested in that uniquely-identifying name
 * (in particular, persistence).
 */
public interface MWNominative extends Model {

    /**
     * Return the object's name.
     */
    String getName();

}