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1
2 /*
3  * Copyright (c) 1998 - 2005 Versant Corporation
4  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
5  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
6  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
7  * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
8  *
9  * Contributors:
10  * Versant Corporation - initial API and implementation
11  */
12 package com.versant.core.jdbc;
13
14 import com.versant.core.jdbc.metadata.JdbcTable;
15
16 /**
17  * These generate JdbcKeyGenerator instances for persistent classes.
18  */
19 public interface JdbcKeyGeneratorFactory {
20
21     /**
22      * Create a javabean to hold args for a createJdbcKeyGenerator call or null
23      * if the key generator does not accept any arguments.
24      */
25     public Object JavaDoc createArgsBean();
26
27     /**
28      * Create a JdbcKeyGenerator for class using args as parameters. The
29      * instance returned may be new or may be a shared instance.
30      *
31      * @throws IllegalArgumentException if anything is invalid
32      */
33     public JdbcKeyGenerator createJdbcKeyGenerator(String JavaDoc className,
34             JdbcTable classTable, Object JavaDoc args)
35             throws IllegalArgumentException JavaDoc;
36
37 }
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