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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 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.model.occurrence.SpecimenOrObservationBase;

import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.strategy.cache.common.IIdentifiableEntityCacheStrategy;

import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.strategy.cache.common.IdentifiableEntityDefaultCacheStrategy;

/**

 * This class represents descriptions for {@link SpecimenOrObservationBase specimens or observations}.

 * <P>

 * This class corresponds to DescriptionsBaseType with an "Object" element

 * according to the SDD schema.

 *  

 * @author a.mueller

 * @version 1.0

 * @created 08-Jul-2008

 */

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)

@XmlType(name = "SpecimenDescription")

@XmlRootElement(name = "SpecimenDescription")

@Entity

@Indexed(index = "eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.description.DescriptionBase")

@Audited

@Configurable

public class SpecimenDescription extends DescriptionBase<IIdentifiableEntityCacheStrategy<SpecimenDescription>> {

	private static final long serialVersionUID = -8506790426682192703L;

	@SuppressWarnings("unused")

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

	/**

	 * Class constructor: creates a new empty specimen description instance.

	 */

	public SpecimenDescription() {

		super();

		this.cacheStrategy = new IdentifiableEntityDefaultCacheStrategy<SpecimenDescription>();

	}

	/**

	 * Creates a new empty specimen description instance.

	 */

	public static SpecimenDescription NewInstance(){

		return new SpecimenDescription();

	}

	/**

	 * Creates a new empty specimen description instance.

	 */

	public static SpecimenDescription NewInstance(SpecimenOrObservationBase specimen){

		SpecimenDescription result =  new SpecimenDescription();

		result.addDescribedSpecimenOrObservation(specimen);

		return result;

	}

}