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/*
* Copyright (c) 2011, 2018 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
*
* This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
* terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0,
* or the Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0 which is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php.
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause
*/
// Contributors:
// Oracle - initial API and implementation
package org.eclipse.persistence.annotations;
import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.FIELD;
import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.METHOD;
import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;
/**
* Struct types are extended object-relational data-types supported by some databases.
* Struct types are user define types in the database such as OBJECT types on Oracle.
* Structs can normally contains Arrays (VARRAY) or other Struct types, and can be stored in
* a column or a table.
* <p>
* This annotation can be defined on a field/method to define an StructureMapping to an embedded Struct type.
* The target Embeddable must be mapped using the Struct annotation.
*
* @see Struct
* @see org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.structures.ObjectRelationalDataTypeDescriptor
* @see org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.structures.StructureMapping
* @author James Sutherland
* @since EclipseLink 2.3
*/
@Target({METHOD, FIELD})
@Retention(RUNTIME)
public @interface Structure {
}
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