01: /**********************************************************************
02: Copyright (c) 2006 Andy Jefferson and others. All rights reserved.
03: Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
04: you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
05: You may obtain a copy of the License at
06:
07: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
08:
09: Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
10: distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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12: See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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14:
15: Contributors:
16: ...
17: **********************************************************************/package org.jpox.metadata.annotations;
18:
19: import org.jpox.ClassLoaderResolver;
20: import org.jpox.metadata.AbstractClassMetaData;
21: import org.jpox.metadata.PackageMetaData;
22:
23: /**
24: * Interface defining the access to MetaData derived from Annotations.
25: *
26: * @version $Revision: 1.1 $
27: */
28: public interface AnnotationManager {
29: /**
30: * Method to get the ClassMetaData for a class from its annotations.
31: * @param cls The class
32: * @param pmd MetaData for the owning package (that this will be a child of)
33: * @param clr Resolver for ClassLoader issues
34: * @return The ClassMetaData (unpopulated and unitialised)
35: */
36: public AbstractClassMetaData getMetaDataForClass(Class cls,
37: PackageMetaData pmd, ClassLoaderResolver clr);
38: }
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