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package org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.tests.jpql;

import org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.tools.spi.IManagedTypeProvider;
import org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.tools.spi.IQuery;

/**
 * The external representation of an ORM configuration.
 *
 * @version 2.3
 * @since 2.3
 * @author Pascal Filion
 */
public interface IORMConfiguration extends IManagedTypeProvider {

	/**
	 * Returns the external form of the given named JPQL query;
	 *
	 * @param queryName The name of the JPQL query to retrieve
	 * @return The {@link IQuery} representing the JPQL query named with the given name; or
	 * <code>null</code> if none could be found
	 */
	IQuery getNamedQuery(String queryName);
}