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<h1 title="Package" class="title">Package&nbsp;org.eclipse.persistence.mappings</h1>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/ContainerMapping.html" title="interface in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">ContainerMapping</a></td>
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<div class="block">Interface used by clients to interact
with the assorted mappings that use <code>ContainerPolicy</code>.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/EmbeddableMapping.html" title="interface in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">EmbeddableMapping</a></td>
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<div class="block">INTERNAL
Common interface to those mappings that are used to map JPA Embedded objects.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/RelationalMapping.html" title="interface in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">RelationalMapping</a></td>
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<div class="block">INTERNAL
All mappings which can be added to org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.Descriptor must
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/AggregateCollectionMapping.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">AggregateCollectionMapping</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>: The aggregate collection mapping is used to represent the aggregate relationship between a single
source object and a collection of target objects.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/AggregateMapping.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">AggregateMapping</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>: Two objects can be considered to be related by aggregation if there is a strict
1:1 relationship between the objects.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/AggregateObjectMapping.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">AggregateObjectMapping</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>:Two objects can be considered to be related by aggregation if there is a strict
1:1 relationship between the objects.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/Association.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">Association</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>: Generic association object.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/AttributeAccessor.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">AttributeAccessor</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>: This provides an abstract class for setting and retrieving
the attribute value for the mapping from an object.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/CollectionMapping.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">CollectionMapping</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>: Abstract class for relationship mappings which store collection of objects</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/DatabaseMapping.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">DatabaseMapping</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>: Defines how an attribute of an object maps to and from the database</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/DirectCollectionMapping.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">DirectCollectionMapping</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>: This mapping is used to store a collection of simple types (String, Number, Date, etc.)
into a single table.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/DirectMapMapping.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">DirectMapMapping</a></td>
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<div class="block">Mapping for a collection of key-value pairs.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/DirectToFieldMapping.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">DirectToFieldMapping</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>: Maps an attribute to the corresponding database field type.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/ForeignReferenceMapping.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">ForeignReferenceMapping</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>: Abstract class for relationship mappings</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/ManyToManyMapping.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">ManyToManyMapping</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>: Many to many mappings are used to represent the relationships
between a collection of source objects and a collection of target objects.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/ManyToOneMapping.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">ManyToOneMapping</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>: Define the relationship to be a ManyToOne.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/MultitenantPrimaryKeyMapping.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">MultitenantPrimaryKeyMapping</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>: Maps a multitenant property to the corresponding database
field type.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/ObjectReferenceMapping.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">ObjectReferenceMapping</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>: Abstract class for 1:1, variable 1:1 and reference mappings</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/OneToManyMapping.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">OneToManyMapping</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>: This mapping is used to represent the
typical RDBMS relationship between a single
source object and collection of target objects; where,
on the database, the target objects have references
(foreign keys) to the source object.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/OneToOneMapping.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">OneToOneMapping</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>: One to one mappings are used to represent a pointer references
between two java objects.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/PropertyAssociation.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">PropertyAssociation</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>: Generic association object.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/RelationTableMechanism.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">RelationTableMechanism</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>: Contains relation table functionality
that was originally defined in ManyToManyMapping
and now is shared with OneToOneMapping.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/TransformationMapping.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">TransformationMapping</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>: A transformation mapping is used for a specialized translation between how
a value is represented in Java and its representation on the databae.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/TypedAssociation.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">TypedAssociation</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>: Generic association object.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/UnidirectionalOneToManyMapping.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">UnidirectionalOneToManyMapping</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>: UnidirectionalOneToManyMapping doesn't have 1:1 back reference mapping.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/VariableOneToOneMapping.html" title="class in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">VariableOneToOneMapping</a></td>
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<div class="block"><b>Purpose</b>: Variable one to one mappings are used to represent a pointer references
between a java object and an implementer of an interface.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/DatabaseMapping.WriteType.html" title="enum in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">DatabaseMapping.WriteType</a></td>
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<td class="colFirst"><a href="../../../../org/eclipse/persistence/mappings/OneToOneMapping.ShallowMode.html" title="enum in org.eclipse.persistence.mappings">OneToOneMapping.ShallowMode</a></td>
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<div class="block">Mode for writeFromObjectIntoRowInternal method</div>
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