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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.DiscriminatorColumn;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.resource.java.DiscriminatorColumnAnnotation;

/**
 * 
 * 
 * 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 JavaDiscriminatorColumn
	extends JavaNamedColumn, DiscriminatorColumn
{	
	void initialize(DiscriminatorColumnAnnotation resourceColumn);
	
	/**
	 * Update the JavaDiscriminatorColumn context model object to match the DiscriminatorColumnAnnotation 
	 * resource model object. see {@link org.eclipse.jpt.core.JpaProject#update()}
	 */
	void update(DiscriminatorColumnAnnotation resourceColumn);
		
	/**
	 * interface allowing columns to be used in multiple places
	 */
	interface Owner extends JavaNamedColumn.Owner, DiscriminatorColumn.Owner
	{

	}

}