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 * Copyright (c) 2008 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.context.orm;

import java.util.List;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.context.JpaContextNode;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.utility.TextRange;
import org.eclipse.wst.validation.internal.provisional.core.IMessage;

/**
 * ORM JPA context nodes have slightly different validation protocol than Java
 * JPA context nodes.
 * 
 * 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 OrmJpaContextNode
	extends JpaContextNode
{

	/**
	 * Add to the list of current validation messages.
	 */
	void addToMessages(List<IMessage> messages);

	TextRange getValidationTextRange();

}