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 * 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 java.util.ListIterator;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.context.SecondaryTable;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.resource.java.SecondaryTableAnnotation;

/**
 * 
 * 
 * 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 3.0
 * @since 2.0
 */
public interface JavaSecondaryTable
	extends SecondaryTable, JavaBaseTable
{

	void initialize(SecondaryTableAnnotation secondaryTableResource);
	
	/**
	 * Update the JavaSecondaryTable context model object to match the SecondaryTableAnnotation 
	 * resource model object. see {@link org.eclipse.jpt.core.JpaProject#update()}
	 */
	void update(SecondaryTableAnnotation secondaryTableResource);


	//****************** covariant overrides *******************

	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	ListIterator<JavaPrimaryKeyJoinColumn> primaryKeyJoinColumns();
	
	JavaPrimaryKeyJoinColumn getDefaultPrimaryKeyJoinColumn();
	
	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	ListIterator<JavaPrimaryKeyJoinColumn> specifiedPrimaryKeyJoinColumns();
	
	JavaPrimaryKeyJoinColumn addSpecifiedPrimaryKeyJoinColumn(int index);

}