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 * Contributors:
 *     Oracle - initial API and implementation
 ******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings;

/**
 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
 * A representation of the model object '<em><b>IJoin Column</b></em>'.
 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
 *
 *
 * @see org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings.JpaCoreMappingsPackage#getIJoinColumn()
 * @model kind="class" interface="true" abstract="true"
 * @generated
 */
public interface IJoinColumn extends IAbstractColumn, IAbstractJoinColumn
{
	IJoinColumn.Owner getOwner();


	/**
	 * interface allowing join columns to be used in multiple places
	 * (e.g. 1:1 mappings and join tables)
	 */
	interface Owner extends IAbstractJoinColumn.Owner
	{
		/**
		 * return whether the specified table cannot be explicitly specified
		 * in the join column's 'table' element
		 */
		boolean tableNameIsInvalid(String tableName);

		/**
		 * return whether the join column's table can be specified explicitly
		 */
		boolean tableIsAllowed();

		/**
		 * return the entity referenced by the join column
		 */
		IEntity targetEntity();

		/**
		 * return the join column's attribute name
		 */
		String attributeName();

		/**
		 * return the relationship mapping for this join column
		 */
		IRelationshipMapping getRelationshipMapping();
	}
}