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-rw-r--r--jpa/plugins/org.eclipse.jpt.core/src/org/eclipse/jpt/core/resource/java/Annotation.java33
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/jpa/plugins/org.eclipse.jpt.core/src/org/eclipse/jpt/core/resource/java/Annotation.java b/jpa/plugins/org.eclipse.jpt.core/src/org/eclipse/jpt/core/resource/java/Annotation.java
index 7e115e6bac..ff1779a29c 100644
--- a/jpa/plugins/org.eclipse.jpt.core/src/org/eclipse/jpt/core/resource/java/Annotation.java
+++ b/jpa/plugins/org.eclipse.jpt.core/src/org/eclipse/jpt/core/resource/java/Annotation.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/*******************************************************************************
- * Copyright (c) 2007, 2008 Oracle. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, 2009 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.
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ package org.eclipse.jpt.core.resource.java;
import org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.CompilationUnit;
/**
- *
+ * Common Java resource annotation behavior
*
* Provisional API: This interface is part of an interim API that is still
* under development and expected to change significantly before reaching
@@ -20,24 +20,33 @@ import org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.CompilationUnit;
* pioneering adopters on the understanding that any code that uses this API
* will almost certainly be broken (repeatedly) as the API evolves.
*/
-public interface Annotation extends JavaResourceNode
-{
+public interface Annotation
+ extends JavaResourceNode
+{
/**
- * Return the fully qualified annotation name.
+ * Return the annotation's fully qualified name, as opposed to the value of
+ * the annotation's 'name' element. For example:
+ * @com.foo.Bar(name="Thomas")
+ * #getAnnotationName() will return "com.foo.Bar".
+ * In typical subclasses, #getName() would return "Thomas".
* @see JPA
*/
String getAnnotationName();
-
- org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.Annotation getJdtAnnotation(CompilationUnit astRoot);
-
+
/**
- * Removing the underyling Java annotation
+ * Return the corresponding JDT DOM annotation from the specified
+ * AST compilation unit.
*/
- void removeAnnotation();
+ org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.Annotation getJdtAnnotation(CompilationUnit astRoot);
/**
- * Create and add Java annotation
+ * Create and add the corresponding Java annotation to the JDT DOM.
*/
void newAnnotation();
-
+
+ /**
+ * Remove the corresponding Java annotation from the JDT DOM.
+ */
+ void removeAnnotation();
+
}

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