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 * Copyright (c) 2009 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.internal.context.persistence;

import org.eclipse.jpt.core.context.persistence.PersistenceXmlContextNodeFactory;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.context.persistence.PersistenceXmlDefinition;

/**
 * All the state in the definition should be "static" (i.e. unchanging once it is initialized).
 */
public abstract class AbstractPersistenceXmlDefinition
	implements PersistenceXmlDefinition
{
	
	private final PersistenceXmlContextNodeFactory factory;
	
	
	/**
	 * zero-argument constructor
	 */
	protected AbstractPersistenceXmlDefinition() {
		super();
		this.factory = buildContextNodeFactory();
	}
	
	
	protected abstract PersistenceXmlContextNodeFactory buildContextNodeFactory();
	
	public PersistenceXmlContextNodeFactory getContextNodeFactory() {
		return this.factory;
	}
}