/**

  * Copyright 2005-2011 The Kuali Foundation

  *

  * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

  * You may obtain a copy of the License at

  *

  * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php

  *

  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

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  */

 package org.kuali.rice.kew.rule;

 /**

  * A Rule wraps a rule definition (RuleBaseValues) and exposes it as a {@link RuleExpression}.

  * 'Rule' is defined as an interface to make the contract in the system clear and independent of implementation.

  * @see RuleBaseValues

  * @see RuleExpression

  * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

  */

 public interface Rule extends RuleExpression {

     /**

      * @return the rule definition this rule is associated with

      */

     public org.kuali.rice.kew.api.rule.RuleContract getDefinition();

 }