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package org.hibernate.engine.spi;

Contract for classes (specifically, entities and components/embeddables) that are "managed".  Developers can
choose to either have their classes manually implement these interfaces or Hibernate can enhance their classes
to implement these interfaces via built-time or run-time enhancement.

The term managed here is used to describe both:

    

        the fact that they are known to the persistence provider (this is defined by the interface itself)
    
    

        its association with Session/EntityManager (this is defined by the state exposed through the interface)
    

Author:
Steve Ebersole/**
 * Contract for classes (specifically, entities and components/embeddables) that are "managed".  Developers can
 * choose to either have their classes manually implement these interfaces or Hibernate can enhance their classes
 * to implement these interfaces via built-time or run-time enhancement.
 * <p/>
 * The term managed here is used to describe both:<ul>
 *     <li>
 *         the fact that they are known to the persistence provider (this is defined by the interface itself)
 *     </li>
 *     <li>
 *         its association with Session/EntityManager (this is defined by the state exposed through the interface)
 *     </li>
 * </ul>
 *
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 */
public interface Managed {
}