/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2006 Oracle Corporation.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Cameron Bateman/Oracle - initial API and implementation
*
********************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jst.jsf.context.symbol;
import org.eclipse.jdt.core.IJavaElement;
/**
* <!-- begin-user-doc -->
* Represents a symbol that has meaning within Java's context. This may
* be the name of a type, an instance, method etc.
*
* <p><b>Provisional API - subject to change</b></p>
* <!-- end-user-doc -->
* @author cbateman
* @model
*/
public interface IJavaSymbol extends ISymbol {
/**
* <!-- begin-user-doc -->
* <!-- end-user-doc -->
* @generated
*/
String copyright = "Copyright 2006 Oracle"; //$NON-NLS-1$
/**
* A IJavaElement may not exist for a symbol if it is synthetic at
* design time but will be bound to a Java symbol at runtime. An
* example is a managed bean instance in JSF. JDT can provide no
* design-time meta-data for the symbol because it won't have
* a Java representation until the containing JSP is compiled.
*
* @return JDT's java element for this symbol or null if one doesn't
* exist.
* @model
*/
IJavaElement getJavaElement();
/**
* Sets the value of the '{@link org.eclipse.jst.jsf.context.symbol.IJavaSymbol#getJavaElement <em>Java Element</em>}' attribute.
* <!-- begin-user-doc -->
* <!-- end-user-doc -->
* @param value the new value of the '<em>Java Element</em>' attribute.
* @see #getJavaElement()
* @generated
*/
void setJavaElement(IJavaElement value);
}