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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 org.hibernate.envers.Audited;

import org.hibernate.search.annotations.Indexed;

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

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

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

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;

/**

 * @author m.doering

 * @version 1.0

 * @created 08-Nov-2007 13:06:32

 */

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)

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

})

@XmlRootElement(name = "LivingBeing")

@Entity

@Indexed(index = "eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.occurrence.SpecimenOrObservationBase")

@Audited

@Configurable

public class LivingBeing extends DerivedUnitBase<IIdentifiableEntityCacheStrategy<LivingBeing>> implements Cloneable {

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

	/**

	 * Factory method

	 * @return

	 */

	public static LivingBeing NewInstance(){

		return new LivingBeing();

	}

	/**

	 * Constructor

	 */

	protected LivingBeing() {

		super();

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

	}

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

	/** 

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

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

	 * 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 LivingBeing clone(){

		try{

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

			//no changes to: -

			return result;

		} catch (CloneNotSupportedException e) {

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

			e.printStackTrace();

			return null;

		}

	}

}