/**
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 * Copyright (C) 2007 Matthias Braeuer (braeuer.matthias@web.de).            *
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 * Dresden University Of Technology, Germany (http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de).  *
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package org.dresdenocl.essentialocl.standardlibrary.provider;

import org.dresdenocl.essentialocl.types.OclLibrary;
import org.dresdenocl.essentialocl.types.util.TypeResolver;
import org.dresdenocl.model.IModel;

/**
 * <p>
 * The {@link IOclLibraryProvider} provides access to the {@link OclLibrary}.
 * </p>
 * 
 * @author Matthias Braeuer
 */
public interface IOclLibraryProvider {

	/**
	 * <p>
	 * Returns the {@link OclLibrary}.
	 * </p>
	 * 
	 * @return The {@link OclLibrary}.
	 */
	OclLibrary getOclLibrary();

	/**
	 * <p>
	 * Returns a {@link TypeResolver} object that can be used to find types in the
	 * OCL standard library and in this {@link IModel}.
	 * </p>
	 * 
	 * @return An {@link TypeResolver} instance.
	 */
	TypeResolver getTypeResolver();
}