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 * Copyright (c) 2012 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.jpa.core.context;

/**
 * ID type mapping:<ul>
 * <li>entity
 * <li>mapped superclass
 * </ul>
 * 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 IdTypeMapping
	extends TypeMapping
{
	/**
	 * Return the (aggregate) class reference for configuring and validating
	 * the type mapping's ID class.
	 */
	IdClassReference getIdClassReference();
}