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/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2007, 2008 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.core.context;

/**
 * 
 * 
 * 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.
 */
public interface JoinColumn extends BaseColumn, BaseJoinColumn
{
	JoinColumn.Owner getOwner();

	/**
	 * interface allowing join columns to be used in multiple places
	 * (e.g. 1:1 mappings and join tables)
	 */
	interface Owner extends BaseJoinColumn.Owner, BaseColumn.Owner
	{
		/**
		 * return whether the specified table cannot be explicitly specified
		 * in the join column's 'table' element
		 */
		boolean tableNameIsInvalid(String tableName);

		/**
		 * return whether the join column's table can be specified explicitly
		 */
		boolean tableIsAllowed();

		/**
		 * return the entity referenced by the join column
		 */
		Entity getTargetEntity();

		/**
		 * return the join column's attribute name
		 */
		String getAttributeName();

		/**
		 * return the relationship mapping for this join column
		 */
		RelationshipMapping getRelationshipMapping();
		
		/**
		 * return the size of the joinColumns collection this join column is a part of
		 */
		int joinColumnsSize();
	}
}

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