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 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
 *
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package org.hibernate;

Contract for resolving an entity-name from a given entity instance.
Author:
Steve Ebersole/**
 * Contract for resolving an entity-name from a given entity instance.
 *
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 */
public interface EntityNameResolver {
	
Given an entity instance, determine its entity-name.
Params:
entity – The entity instance.
Returns:
The corresponding entity-name, or null if this impl does not know how to perform resolution
        for the given entity instance./**
	 * Given an entity instance, determine its entity-name.
	 *
	 * @param entity The entity instance.
	 *
	 * @return The corresponding entity-name, or null if this impl does not know how to perform resolution
	 *         for the given entity instance.
	 */
	public String resolveEntityName(Object entity);
}