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 * 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:
 *     Oracle - initial API and implementation
 ******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jpt.jpa.eclipselink.core.context.orm;

import org.eclipse.jpt.jpa.core.context.orm.OrmTypeMapping;
import org.eclipse.jpt.jpa.eclipselink.core.context.EclipseLinkTypeMapping;
import org.eclipse.jpt.jpa.eclipselink.core.context.java.EclipseLinkJavaTypeMapping;

/**
 * EclipseLink type mapping
 * <p>
 * Provisional API: This interface is part of an interim API that is still
 * under development and expected to change significantly before reaching
 * stability. It is available at this early stage to solicit feedback from
 * pioneering adopters on the understanding that any code that uses this API
 * will almost certainly be broken (repeatedly) as the API evolves.
 */
public interface EclipseLinkOrmTypeMapping
	extends OrmTypeMapping, EclipseLinkTypeMapping
{
	// this is pretty different from the Java container (so, no common super-interface)
	OrmEclipseLinkConverterContainer getConverterContainer();

	EclipseLinkJavaTypeMapping getJavaTypeMapping();

	EclipseLinkJavaTypeMapping getJavaTypeMappingForDefaults();
}