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 * Copyright (c) 2007 Oracle. 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:
 *     Oracle - initial API and implementation
 ******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings;

import org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.IAttributeMapping;

/**
 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
 * A representation of the model object '<em><b>IVersion</b></em>'.
 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
 *
 * <p>
 * The following features are supported:
 * <ul>
 *   <li>{@link org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings.IVersion#getColumn <em>Column</em>}</li>
 *   <li>{@link org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings.IVersion#getTemporal <em>Temporal</em>}</li>
 * </ul>
 * </p>
 *
 * @see org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings.JpaCoreMappingsPackage#getIVersion()
 * @model kind="class" interface="true" abstract="true"
 * @generated
 */
public interface IVersion extends IAttributeMapping, IColumnMapping
{
	/**
	 * Returns the value of the '<em><b>Column</b></em>' containment reference.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <p>
	 * If the meaning of the '<em>Column</em>' containment reference isn't clear,
	 * there really should be more of a description here...
	 * </p>
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @return the value of the '<em>Column</em>' containment reference.
	 * @see org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings.JpaCoreMappingsPackage#getIVersion_Column()
	 * @model containment="true" required="true" changeable="false"
	 * @generated
	 */
	IColumn getColumn();

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the '<em><b>Temporal</b></em>' attribute.
	 * The literals are from the enumeration {@link org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings.TemporalType}.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <p>
	 * If the meaning of the '<em>Temporal</em>' attribute isn't clear,
	 * there really should be more of a description here...
	 * </p>
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @return the value of the '<em>Temporal</em>' attribute.
	 * @see org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings.TemporalType
	 * @see #setTemporal(TemporalType)
	 * @see org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings.JpaCoreMappingsPackage#getIVersion_Temporal()
	 * @model
	 * @generated
	 */
	TemporalType getTemporal();

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings.IVersion#getTemporal <em>Temporal</em>}' attribute.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @param value the new value of the '<em>Temporal</em>' attribute.
	 * @see org.eclipse.jpt.core.internal.mappings.TemporalType
	 * @see #getTemporal()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setTemporal(TemporalType value);
} // IVersion