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1 /*
2  * Copyright 2005 The Apache Software Foundation.
3  *
4  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6  * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7  *
8  * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9  *
10  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14  * limitations under the License.
15  */

16
17 /*
18  * JDOConnection.java
19  *
20  */

21  
22 package javax.jdo.datastore;
23
24 import javax.jdo.PersistenceManager;
25
26 /**
27  * The underlying connection that is being used by a
28  * {@link PersistenceManager}.
29  * @version 2.0
30  * @since 2.0
31  */

32 public interface JDOConnection {
33
34     /**
35      * Returns the native, datastore-specific connection that this
36      * connection wraps. In general, it is not recommended that this
37      * native connection be used directly, since the JDO
38      * implementation has no way to intercept calls to it, so it is
39      * quite possible to put the <code>PersistenceManager</code>'s
40      * connection into an invalid state.
41      * @return the native connection
42      * @since 2.0
43      */

44     Object JavaDoc getNativeConnection ();
45 }
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