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 * Copyright (c) 2007, 2010 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.java;

import org.eclipse.jpt.core.context.AttributeOverride;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.resource.java.AttributeOverrideAnnotation;

/**
 * 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.
 * 
 * @version 2.3
 * @since 2.0
 */
public interface JavaAttributeOverride
	extends AttributeOverride, JavaOverride, JavaBaseColumn.Owner
{
	JavaColumn getColumn();
	
	JavaAttributeOverride setVirtual(boolean virtual);
	
	AttributeOverrideAnnotation getOverrideAnnotation();
	
	void initialize(AttributeOverrideAnnotation attributeOverride);
	
	/**
	 * Update the JavaAttributeOverride context model object to match the AttributeOverrideAnnotation 
	 * resource model object. see {@link org.eclipse.jpt.core.JpaProject#update()}
	 */
	void update(AttributeOverrideAnnotation attributeOverride);
	
	interface Owner
		extends AttributeOverride.Owner, JavaOverride.Owner
	{
		//nothing yet
	}
}