/*

  * Copyright 2005-2007 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.krad.service;

 import org.kuali.rice.krad.bo.BusinessObject;

 /**

  * Provides access to sequence numbers.

  * 

  * 

  */

 public interface SequenceAccessorService {

     /**

      * This method retrieves the next available sequence number using the

      * dataSource that is associated with the specified BusinessObject class.

      * 

      * @return next available sequence number

      */        

         public Long getNextAvailableSequenceNumber(String sequenceName, 

                         Class<? extends BusinessObject> clazz);

     /**

      * This method retrieves the next available sequence number

      * 

      * @return next available sequence number

      */

     public Long getNextAvailableSequenceNumber(String sequenceName);

 }