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 * Copyright (c) 2009, 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.eclipselink.core;

import org.eclipse.jpt.core.JpaProject;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.resource.xml.JpaXmlResource;

/**
 * EclipseLink JPA project.
 * <p>
 * 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.
 */
public interface EclipseLinkJpaProject
	extends JpaProject
{

	/**
	 * Return the resource model object that corresponds to the file
	 * <code>META-INF/eclipselink-orm.xml</code> if that file has the
	 * EclipseLink content type.
	 * 
	 * @see org.eclipse.jpt.eclipselink.core.internal.JptEclipseLinkCorePlugin#DEFAULT_ECLIPSELINK_ORM_XML_RUNTIME_PATH
	 * @see org.eclipse.jpt.eclipselink.core.internal.JptEclipseLinkCorePlugin#ECLIPSELINK_ORM_XML_CONTENT_TYPE
	 */
	JpaXmlResource getDefaultEclipseLinkOrmXmlResource();

}