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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.occurrence;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

import javax.persistence.*;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

/**

 * @author p.kelbert

 */

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)

@XmlRootElement(name = "DerivedUnit")

@Entity

public class DerivedUnit extends DerivedUnitBase implements Cloneable{

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

	/**

	 * Factory method

	 * @return

	 */

	public static DerivedUnit NewInstance(){

		return new DerivedUnit();

	}

	/**

	 * Constructor

	 */

	protected DerivedUnit() {

		super();

	}

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

	/** 

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

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

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

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

	 * 

	 * @see DerivedUnitBase#clone()

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

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

	 */

	@Override

	public DerivedUnit clone(){

		try{

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

			//no changes to: -

			return result;

		} catch (CloneNotSupportedException e) {

			logger.warn("Object does not implement cloneable");

			e.printStackTrace();

			return null;

		}

	}

}