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/* Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation
*
* 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
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*/
package org.apache.xmlbeans;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
/**
* The UserType class represents a mapping between an XML Schema QName and
* a custom Java class type. It is used during code generation to determine
* how to convert user-defined simple types to user defined Java classes.
*/
public interface UserType
{
/**
* The QName of the simple value that will be converted to a Java class.
*/
QName getName();
/**
* The class name the simple value will be converted to.
*/
String getJavaName();
/**
* A class which provides public static methods to convert {@link SimpleValue}
* objects to and from the Java type specified by {@link #getJavaName()}.
*/
String getStaticHandler();
}