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Instantiator.java API Doc Hibernate 3.2.5 1079 Mon Jul 11 12:31:50 BST 2005 org.hibernate.tuple

Instantiator

public interface Instantiator implements Serializable

Contract for implementors responsible for instantiating entity/component instances.

author: Steve Ebersole

Fields Summary
Constructors Summary
Methods Summary
public java.lang.Object instantiate(java.io.Serializable id)
Perform the requested entity instantiation.
This form is never called for component instantiation, only entity instantiation.
param
id The id of the entity to be instantiated.
return
An appropriately instantiated entity.
public java.lang.Object instantiate()
Perform the requested instantiation.
return
The instantiated data structure.
public boolean isInstance(java.lang.Object object)
Performs check to see if the given object is an instance of the entity or component which this Instantiator instantiates.
param
object The object to be checked.
return
True is the object does respresent an instance of the underlying entity/component.