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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 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;
+
+/**
+ * Strategy describing how two entities are related, either for a
+ * {@link RelationshipMapping} or an {@link AssociationOverride}:<ul>
+ * <li>join column
+ * <li>join table
+ * <li>"mapped by"
+ * <li>primary key join column
+ * </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.
+ * 
+ * @see RelationshipMapping
+ * @see ReadOnlyAssociationOverride
+ * @see ReadOnlyRelationship
+ */
+public interface ReadOnlyRelationshipStrategy
+	extends JpaContextNode
+{
+	/**
+	 * Return the strategy's relationship.
+	 */
+	ReadOnlyRelationship getRelationship();
+	
+	/**
+	 * Return the table name associated with the strategy's columns.
+	 * The join table name, for instance, or in the case of a bi-directional
+	 * relationship, the table of the owning relationship.
+	 */
+	String getTableName();
+}