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package org.eclipse.jpt.jpa.core.context;

/**
 * Behavior common to embedded and embedded ID mappings.
 * <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.
 * 
 * @version 2.3
 * @since 2.0
 */
public interface BaseEmbeddedMapping
	extends AttributeMapping
{
	AttributeOverrideContainer getAttributeOverrideContainer();
	
	/**
	 * Return the embeddable the embedded mapping references.
	 * Return <code>null</code> if there is none.
	 */
	Embeddable getTargetEmbeddable();
	
	/**
	 * String associated with property change events for the target embeddable
	 */
	String TARGET_EMBEDDABLE_PROPERTY = "targetEmbeddable";  //$NON-NLS-1$
}