001// Copyright 2011 The Apache Software Foundation 002// 003// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 004// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 005// You may obtain a copy of the License at 006// 007// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 008// 009// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 010// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 011// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 012// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 013// limitations under the License. 014 015package org.apache.tapestry5.jpa; 016 017import java.util.Collection; 018 019import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.annotations.UsesConfiguration; 020 021/** 022 * Contains a set of contributed package names from which to load entities. 023 * <p/> 024 * The service's configuration is the names of Java packages to search for JPA entities. 025 * 026 * @since 5.3 027 */ 028@UsesConfiguration(String.class) 029public interface JpaEntityPackageManager 030{ 031 /** 032 * Returns packages from which read entity classes 033 */ 034 Collection<String> getPackageNames(); 035}