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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.agent;

import javax.persistence.Embedded;

import javax.persistence.Entity;

import javax.persistence.Transient;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlTransient;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType;

import org.hibernate.annotations.Index;

import org.hibernate.annotations.Table;

import org.hibernate.envers.Audited;

import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.media.IdentifiableMediaEntity;

import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.strategy.cache.agent.INomenclaturalAuthorCacheStrategy;

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

/**

 * The upmost (abstract) class for agents such as persons, teams or institutions.

 * An agent is a conscious entity which can take decisions, act and create

 * according to its own knowledge and goals and which may be approached.

 * Agents can be authors for nomenclatural or bibliographical references as well

 * as creators of pictures or field collectors or administrators of collections.

 * 

 * @author m.doering

 * @version 1.0

 * @created 08-Nov-2007 13:06:57

 */

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)

@XmlType(name = "Agent", propOrder = {

		"contact"

})

@Entity

@Audited

@Table(appliesTo="AgentBase", indexes = { @Index(name = "agentTitleCacheIndex", columnNames = { "titleCache" }) })

public abstract class AgentBase<S extends IIdentifiableEntityCacheStrategy> extends IdentifiableMediaEntity<S>{

	/**

	 * 

	 */

	private static final long serialVersionUID = 7732768617469448829L;

	@XmlElement(name = "Contact")

    @Embedded

    private Contact contact;

	/** 

	 * Returns the {@link Contact contact} of <i>this</i> person.

	 * The contact contains several ways to approach <i>this</i> person.

	 *

	 * @see 	Contact

	 */

	public Contact getContact(){

		return this.contact;

	}

	/**

	 * @see  #getContact()

	 */

	public void setContact(Contact contact){

		this.contact = contact;

	}

}