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 * 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 org.eclipse.jpt.core.context.BaseJoinColumn;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.utility.TextRange;

/**
 * 
 * 
 * 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 OrmBaseJoinColumn extends BaseJoinColumn, OrmNamedColumn
{

	/**
	 * Return the (best guess) text location of the referenced column name
	 */
	TextRange getReferencedColumnNameTextRange();

	
	Owner getOwner();
	/**
	 * interface allowing join columns to be used in multiple places
	 * (e.g. 1:1 mappings and join tables)
	 */
	interface Owner extends BaseJoinColumn.Owner, OrmNamedColumn.Owner
	{

	}
}