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javax.enterprise.deploy.model
Interface DDBeanRoot

All Superinterfaces:: DDBean

public interface DDBeanRoot
extends DDBean

An interface that represents the root of a standard deployment descriptor. A DDBeanRoot is a type of DDBean.

Author:: gfink

Method Summary

String getDDBeanRootVersion()
          Returns the version number of an XML instance document.

DeployableObject getDeployableObject()
          Return the containing DeployableObject

String getFilename()
          Returns the filename relative to the root of the module of the XML instance document this DDBeanRoot represents.

String getModuleDTDVersion()
          Deprecated. As of version 1.1 replaced by DDBeanRoot.getDDBeanRootVersion()

ModuleType getType()
          Return the ModuleType of deployment descriptor.

String getXpath()
          Return the XPath for this standard bean.

Methods inherited from interface javax.enterprise.deploy.model.DDBean

addXpathListener, getAttributeNames, getAttributeValue, getChildBean, getId, getRoot, getText, getText, removeXpathListener

Method Detail

getType

public ModuleType getType()

Return the ModuleType of deployment descriptor.

Returns:: The ModuleType of deployment descriptor

getDeployableObject

public DeployableObject getDeployableObject()

Return the containing DeployableObject

Returns:: The DeployableObject that contains this deployment descriptor

getModuleDTDVersion

public String getModuleDTDVersion()

Deprecated. As of version 1.1 replaced by DDBeanRoot.getDDBeanRootVersion()

A convenience method to return the DTD version number. The DeployableObject has this information.

Returns:: a string containing the DTD version number This method is being deprecated. Two DD data formats are being used, DTD and XML Schema. DDBeanRoot.getDDBeanRootVersion should be used in its place.

getDDBeanRootVersion

public String getDDBeanRootVersion()

Returns the version number of an XML instance document. This method is replacing the methods DDBeanRoot.getModuleDTDVersion and DeployableObject.getModuleDTDVersion. This method returns the version number of any J2EE XML instance document.

Returns:: a string that is the version number of the XML instance document. Null is returned if no version number can be found.

getXpath

public String getXpath()

Return the XPath for this standard bean. The root XPath is "/".

Specified by:: getXpath in interface DDBean

Returns:: "/" this is the root standard bean.

getFilename

public String getFilename()

Returns the filename relative to the root of the module of the XML instance document this DDBeanRoot represents.

Returns:: String the filename relative to the root of the module