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/**

* Copyright (C) 2007 EDIT

* European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy 

* http://www.e-taxonomy.eu

* 

* The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1

* See LICENSE.TXT at the top of this package for the full license terms.

*/

package eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.reference;

import javax.persistence.Entity;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

import org.hibernate.envers.Audited;

import org.hibernate.search.annotations.Indexed;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Configurable;

import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.strategy.cache.reference.IReferenceBaseCacheStrategy;

import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.strategy.cache.reference.StrictReferenceBaseDefaultCacheStrategy;

/**

 * This class represents a database used as an information source. A database is

 * a structured collection of records or data.

 * <P>

 * This class corresponds, according to the TDWG ontology, partially to the

 * publication type term (from PublicationTypeTerm): "ComputerProgram".

 * 

 * @author m.doering

 * @version 1.0

 * @created 08-Nov-2007 13:06:19

 */

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)

@XmlType(name = "Database")

@XmlRootElement(name = "Database")

@Entity

@Indexed(index = "eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.reference.ReferenceBase")

@Audited

@Configurable

public class Database extends PublicationBase<IReferenceBaseCacheStrategy<Database>> implements Cloneable {

	/**

	 * 

	 */

	private static final long serialVersionUID = -7077612779393752878L;

	private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(Database.class);

	protected Database() {

		this.cacheStrategy = new StrictReferenceBaseDefaultCacheStrategy<Database>();

	}

	/** 

	 * Creates a new empty database instance.

	 */

	public static Database NewInstance(){

		return new Database();

	}

//*********** CLONE **********************************/	

	/** 

	 * Clones <i>this</i> database instance. This is a shortcut that enables to

	 * create a new instance that differs only slightly from <i>this</i>

	 * database instance by modifying only some of the attributes.<BR>

	 * This method overrides the clone method from {@link StrictReferenceBase StrictReferenceBase}.

	 * 

	 * @see StrictReferenceBase#clone()

	 * @see eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.media.IdentifiableMediaEntity#clone()

	 * @see java.lang.Object#clone()

	 */

	@Override

	public Database clone(){

		Database result = (Database)super.clone();

		//no changes to: -

		return result;

	}

}