/******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2009, 2012 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; import org.eclipse.jpt.common.core.JptResourceType; import org.eclipse.jpt.jpa.core.context.java.DefaultJavaAttributeMappingDefinition; import org.eclipse.jpt.jpa.core.context.java.JavaAttributeMappingDefinition; import org.eclipse.jpt.jpa.core.context.java.JavaTypeMappingDefinition; /** * This interface is to be implemented by a JPA vendor to provide extensions to * the core JPA model. The core JPA model will provide functionality for JPA * spec annotations in java, persistence.xml and mapping (orm.xml) files. * The org.eclipse.jpt.jpa.core.generic extension supplies * resource models for those file types in GenericJpaPlatformProvider. * * This JpaPlatformProvider implementation most likely only returns providers * that are extensions of other platforms. Then in the GenericJpaPlatform implementation * you pass in 1 or more JpaPlatformProviders. *
* See the org.eclipse.jpt.jpa.core.jpaPlatforms extension point *
* 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.
*
* @version 2.3
* @since 2.2
*/
public interface JpaPlatformProvider {
/**
* Return the most recent resource type for the specified content type
* supported by the JPA platform
*/
Iterable