/*
* Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
* or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
* distributed with this work for additional information
* regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
* to you 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 limitations
* under the License.
*/
package org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.schema;
/**
* Factory for {@link SchemaGroup}s. Users can plug in their own factory
* implementation, or rely on the ones provided. Most schema factories
* will probably implement {@link org.apache.openjpa.lib.conf.Configurable} to
* receive the system configuration on construction.
*
* @author Abe White
*/
public interface SchemaFactory {
/**
* Return the schema group for the current object model and database.
*/
public SchemaGroup readSchema();
/**
* Record the schema group after changes may have been made.
*
* @param schema the schema definition for the entire system
*/
public void storeSchema(SchemaGroup schema);
}