Application: gvSIG desktop

/* gvSIG. Geographic Information System of the Valencian Government

*

* Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Infrastructures and Transports Department

* of the Valencian Government (CIT)

*

* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2

* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

*

* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

* GNU General Public License for more details.

*

* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,

* MA  02110-1301, USA.

*

*/

/*

* AUTHORS (In addition to CIT):

* 2008 Geographic Information research group: http://www.geoinfo.uji.es

* Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Inform?ticos (LSI)

* Universitat Jaume I

* {{Task}}

*/

package org.gvsig.metadata;

import java.util.Set;

import org.gvsig.tools.dynobject.DynObject;

/**

 * Metadata is information or data about data {@link http

 * ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata}.

 * <p>

 * This interface extends DynObject to add anything needed over the DynObject

 * model to be able to be used as a Metadata model.

 * </p>

 *

 * @author <a href="mailto:cordin@disid.com">C?sar Ordi?ana</a>

 */

public interface Metadata extends DynObject {

    /**

     * Returns the unique identifier of the Metadata.

     *

     * @return the Metadata identifier

     */

    Object getMetadataID();

    /**

     * Returns the name of the Metadata, which allows to identify the type in

     * the Metadata registry.

     *

     * @return the Metadata name

     */

    String getMetadataName();

    /**

     * Returns a set of child Metadata objects.

     *

     * @return a set of child Metadata objects

     */

    Set getMetadataChildren();

}