/*
* Copyright 2005 Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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*/
package org.drools.core.spi;
import org.drools.core.base.ValueType;
import java.io.Externalizable;
/**
* Semantic object type differentiator.
*/
public interface ObjectType
extends
Externalizable {
boolean isAssignableFrom(Class<?> clazz);
boolean isAssignableFrom(ObjectType objectType);
/**
* Returns true if the object type represented by this object
* is an event object type. False otherwise.
* @return
*/
boolean isEvent();
ValueType getValueType();
}