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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.description;

import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.common.Language;

import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.common.OrderedTermBase;

import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.common.TermVocabulary;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

import org.hibernate.envers.Audited;

import javax.persistence.*;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType;

/**

 * This class represents possible modulations for the validity of

 * information pieces ({@link DescriptionElementBase} description elements).

 * It can cover probability ("perhaps"), frequency ("often") intensity ("very"),

 * timing ("spring") and other domains. Its instances can be grouped to build

 * different controlled {@link TermVocabulary term vocabularies}.

 * <P>

 * This class corresponds to GeneralModifierNLDType according to

 * the SDD schema.

 * 

 * @author m.doering

 * @version 1.0

 * @created 08-Nov-2007 13:06:35

 */

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)

@XmlType(name = "Modifier")

@XmlRootElement(name = "Modifier")

@Entity

@Audited

public class Modifier extends OrderedTermBase<Modifier> {

	private static final long serialVersionUID = -2491833848163461951L;

	@SuppressWarnings("unused")

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

	/** 

	 * Class constructor: creates a new empty modifier instance.

	 * 

	 * @see #Modifier(String, String, String)

	 */

	protected Modifier(){

		super();

	}

	/** 

	 * Class constructor: creates a new modifier with a description

	 * (in the {@link Language#DEFAULT() default language}), a label and a label abbreviation.

	 * 

	 * @param	term  		 the string (in the default language) describing the

	 * 						 new modifier to be created 

	 * @param	label  		 the string identifying the new modifier to be created

	 * @param	labelAbbrev  the string identifying (in abbreviated form) the

	 * 						 new modifier to be created

	 * @see 				 #Modifier()

	 */

	public Modifier(String term, String label, String labelAbbrev) {

		super(term, label, labelAbbrev);

	}

	/** 

	 * Creates a new empty modifier instance.

	 * 

	 * @see #Modifier(String, String, String)

	 */

	public static Modifier NewInstance(){

		return new Modifier();

	}

	@Override

	protected void setDefaultTerms(TermVocabulary<Modifier> termVocabulary) {

		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

	}

}