DatabaseInfo.java

/* 
 *
 * SchemaCrawler
 * http://sourceforge.net/projects/schemacrawler
 * Copyright (c) 2000-2011, Sualeh Fatehi.
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms
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 *
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 *
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 */

package schemacrawler.schema;


import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * Database and connection information.
 * 
 * @author Sualeh Fatehi
 */
public interface DatabaseInfo
  extends Serializable
{

  /**
   * Gets the name of the RDBMS vendor and product.
   * 
   * @return Name of the RDBMS vendor and product
   */
  String getProductName();

  /**
   * Gets the RDBMS product version.
   * 
   * @return RDBMS product version
   */
  String getProductVersion();

  /**
   * Gets all database properties.
   * 
   * @return Database properties
   */
  DatabaseProperty[] getProperties();

  /**
   * Gets the user name as known to this database.
   * 
   * @return Database user name
   */
  String getUserName();

}