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* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.metamodel.source.binder;
import org.hibernate.metamodel.binding.InheritanceType;
/**
* Models the source-agnostic view of an entity hierarchy.
*
* @author Steve Ebersole
*/
public interface EntityHierarchy {
/**
* The inheritance type/strategy for the hierarchy.
* <p/>
* NOTE : The entire hierarchy must comply with the same inheritance strategy.
*
* @return The inheritance type.
*/
public InheritanceType getHierarchyInheritanceType();
/**
* Obtain the hierarchy's root entity.
*
* @return THe root entity.
*/
public RootEntitySource getRootEntitySource();
}