1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2012 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.krad.bo;
17
18 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.mo.ModelObjectBasic;
19
20 /**
21 * Interface for business objects
22 *
23 * <p>
24 * Business objects are special objects to the Rice framework that indicate an object has certain features
25 * (like refresh), most business objects are persistable see {@link PersistableBusinessObjectBase}
26 * </p>
27 *
28 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
29 */
30 public interface BusinessObject extends ModelObjectBasic {
31
32 /**
33 * Refreshes any reference objects from the primitive values.
34 */
35 public abstract void refresh();
36 }