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* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.metamodel.domain;
import org.hibernate.internal.util.ValueHolder;
/**
* Basic information about a Java type, in regards to its role in particular set of mappings.
*
* @author Steve Ebersole
*/
public interface Type {
/**
* Obtain the name of the type.
*
* @return The name
*/
public String getName();
/**
* Obtain the java class name for this type.
*
* @return The class name
*/
public String getClassName();
/**
* Obtain the java {@link Class} reference for this type
*
* @return The {@link Class} reference
*
* @throws org.hibernate.service.classloading.spi.ClassLoadingException Indicates the class reference
* could not be determined. Generally this is the case in reverse-engineering scenarios where the specified
* domain model classes do not yet exist.
*/
public Class<?> getClassReference();
public ValueHolder<Class<?>> getClassReferenceUnresolved();
public boolean isAssociation();
public boolean isComponent();
}