001    /**
002     * Copyright 2011 The Kuali Foundation Licensed under the
003     * Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
004     * not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may
005     * obtain a copy of the License at
006     *
007     * http://www.osedu.org/licenses/ECL-2.0
008     *
009     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
010     * software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
011     * BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express
012     * or implied. See the License for the specific language governing
013     * permissions and limitations under the License.
014     */
015    
016    package org.kuali.common.impex.model;
017    
018    /**
019     * This interface allows for any database model element to be treated as a simple named element.
020     * Used primarily for sorting lists of elements by name
021     *
022     * @author andrewlubbers
023     */
024    public interface NamedElement {
025    
026        String getName();
027    
028    }