/**
 *
 *  Copyright 2005 BEA Systems Inc.
 *  Copyright 2005 International Business Machines Corporation
 *
 *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 *  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 *  limitations under the License.
 */
package org.osoa.sdo;

import java.util.List;
import java.lang.reflect.*;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;

/**
 * @version $Rev$ $Date$
 */
public interface Type<T> {
    static final String SDO_NAMESPACE = "http://www.osoa.org/sdo";
    static final QName BOOLEAN = new QName(SDO_NAMESPACE, "Boolean");
    static final QName BYTE = new QName(SDO_NAMESPACE, "Byte");
    static final QName BYTES = new QName(SDO_NAMESPACE, "Bytes");
    static final QName CHARACTER = new QName(SDO_NAMESPACE, "Character");
    static final QName DATE = new QName(SDO_NAMESPACE, "Date");
    static final QName DOUBLE = new QName(SDO_NAMESPACE, "Double");
    static final QName FLOAT = new QName(SDO_NAMESPACE, "Float");
    static final QName INT = new QName(SDO_NAMESPACE, "Int");
    static final QName LONG = new QName(SDO_NAMESPACE, "Long");
    static final QName SHORT = new QName(SDO_NAMESPACE, "Short");
    static final QName STRING = new QName(SDO_NAMESPACE, "String");

    static final String JAVA_NAMESPACE = "http://www.osoa.org/sdo/java";
    static final QName BOOLEAN_OBJECT = new QName(JAVA_NAMESPACE, "java.lang.Boolean");
    static final QName CHARACTER_OBJECT = new QName(JAVA_NAMESPACE, "java.lang.Character");
    static final QName BYTE_OBJECT = new QName(JAVA_NAMESPACE, "java.lang.Byte");
    static final QName SHORT_OBJECT = new QName(JAVA_NAMESPACE, "java.lang.Short");
    static final QName INTEGER_OBJECT = new QName(JAVA_NAMESPACE, "java.lang.Integer");
    static final QName LONG_OBJECT = new QName(JAVA_NAMESPACE, "java.lang.Long");
    static final QName FLOAT_OBJECT = new QName(JAVA_NAMESPACE, "java.lang.Float");
    static final QName DOUBLE_OBJECT = new QName(JAVA_NAMESPACE, "java.lang.Double");

    QName getName();

    java.lang.reflect.Type getJavaType();

    T newInstance();

    List<Property> getProperties();

    boolean isDataType();

    Property<?> getProperty(String name);
}