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013package org.apache.tapestry5.hibernate;
014
015import org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.annotations.UsesConfiguration;
016
017import java.util.Collection;
018
019/**
020 * Contains a set of contributed package names from which to load entities.
021 *
022 * The service's configuration is the names of Java packages to search for Hibernate entities.
023 */
024@UsesConfiguration(String.class)
025public interface HibernateEntityPackageManager
026{
027    /**
028     * Returns packages from which read entity classes
029     */
030    Collection<String> getPackageNames();
031}