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 * 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:
 * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.common;

import org.eclipse.emf.common.util.EList;

/**
 * The env-entry element contains the declaration of an application client's environment entries. The declaration consists of an optional description, the name of the environment entry, and an optional value.
 * @generated
 * @since 1.0 */
public interface EnvEntry extends J2EEEObject {
	/**
	 * @generated This field/method will be replaced during code generation 
	 * @return The value of the Description attribute
	 * The description element is used by the ejb-jar file producer to provide text
	 * describing the parent element.  The description element should include any
	 * information that the ejb-jar file producer wants to provide to the consumer of
	 * the ejb-jar file (i.e. to the Deployer). Typically, the tools used by the
	 * ejb-jar file consumer will display the description when processing the parent
	 * element.
	 */
	String getDescription();

	/**
	 * @generated This field/method will be replaced during code generation 
	 * @param value The new value of the Description attribute
	 */
	void setDescription(String value);

	/**
	 * @generated This field/method will be replaced during code generation 
	 * @return The value of the Name attribute
	 * The env-entry-name element contains the name of an application client's
	 * environment entry. 
	 */
	String getName();

	/**
	 * @generated This field/method will be replaced during code generation 
	 * @param value The new value of the Name attribute
	 */
	void setName(String value);

	/**
	 * @generated This field/method will be replaced during code generation 
	 * @return The value of the Value attribute
	 * The env-entry-value element contains the value of an application client's
	 * environment entry. The value must be a String that is valid for the constructor 
	 * of the specified type that takes a single String parameter.
	 * Used in: env-entry
	 * Example:
	 * <env-entry-value>//datasources//MyDatabase<//env-entry-value>
	 */
	String getValue();

	/**
	 * @generated This field/method will be replaced during code generation 
	 * @param value The new value of the Value attribute
	 */
	void setValue(String value);

	/**
	 * @generated This field/method will be replaced during code generation 
	 * @return The value of the Type attribute
	 * The env-entry-type element contains the fully-qualified Java type of the
	 * environment entry value that is expected by the application client's code. The
	 * following are the legal values of env-entry-type: java.lang.Bool-ean,
	 * java.lang.String, java.lang.Integer, java.lang.Double, java.lang.Byte,
	 * java.lang.Short, java.lang.Long, and java.lang.Float. 
	 * Example: <env-entry-type>java.lang.Boolean<//env-entry-type>
	 */
	EnvEntryType getType();

	/**
	 * Sets the value of the '{@link org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.common.EnvEntry#getType <em>Type</em>}' attribute.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @param value the new value of the '<em>Type</em>' attribute.
	 * @see org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.common.EnvEntryType
	 * @see #isSetType()
	 * @see #unsetType()
	 * @see #getType()
	 * @generated
	 */
	void setType(EnvEntryType value);

	/**
	 * Unsets the value of the '{@link org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.common.EnvEntry#getType <em>Type</em>}' attribute.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @see #isSetType()
	 * @see #getType()
	 * @see #setType(EnvEntryType)
	 * @generated
	 */
	void unsetType();

	/**
	 * Returns whether the value of the '{@link org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.common.EnvEntry#getType <em>Type</em>}' attribute is set.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * @return whether the value of the '<em>Type</em>' attribute is set.
	 * @see #unsetType()
	 * @see #getType()
	 * @see #setType(EnvEntryType)
	 * @generated
	 */
	boolean isSetType();

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the '<em><b>Descriptions</b></em>' containment reference list.
	 * The list contents are of type {@link org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.common.Description}.
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <p>
	 * If the meaning of the '<em>Descriptions</em>' containment reference list isn't clear,
	 * there really should be more of a description here...
	 * </p>
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * @version J2EE1.4
	 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
	 * @return the value of the '<em>Descriptions</em>' containment reference list.
	 * @see org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.common.CommonPackage#getEnvEntry_Descriptions()
	 * @model type="org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.common.Description" containment="true"
	 * @generated
	 */
	EList getDescriptions();

}