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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.java;

import org.eclipse.jpt.core.context.RelationshipMapping;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.resource.java.RelationshipMappingAnnotation;

/**
 * 
 * 
 * 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 JavaRelationshipMapping
	extends JavaAttributeMapping, RelationshipMapping
{
	RelationshipMappingAnnotation getMappingAnnotation();
	
	JavaCascade getCascade();

	/**
	 * If the target entity is specified, this will return it fully qualified. If not
	 * specified, it returns the default target entity, which is always fully qualified
	 */
	String getFullyQualifiedTargetEntity();
		String FULLY_QUALIFIED_TARGET_ENTITY_PROPERTY = "fullyQualifiedTargetEntity"; //$NON-NLS-1$

}